Sorry that was my bad, not fully understanding what a LAN Disk was.
Rob
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From: hampshire-bounces@???
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mailto:hampshire-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Keith Edmunds
Sent: 19 November 2007 13:30
To: hampshire@???
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Partition Formats
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:54:49 -0000, rmn@??? said:
> Perhaps it was written long before linux adopted an NTFS write
> capability........also bear in mind that for the average user windows
> cannot write to ext2/3/reiser etc.
If it's served via the LAN, it doesn't matter what format the disk is
(Windows PCs can't write to ext3 but there is no problem with Samba
using
ext3 partitions because the clients use the SMB protocol rather than
direct read/write to the disk).
Keith
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