On 09/10/2010 19:20, Clive Woodfine wrote:
> On 9 October 2010 17:29, Peter Collins<hlug@???> wrote:
>> On 09/10/2010 18:25, Clive Woodfine wrote:
>>> I have a a usb hdd attached to my computer. It is formatted with fat32
>>> and gparted shows its size as 74.53 Gib with 35.59 Gib used. When I
>>> try to copy a file of 11.5 GB it starts but then says I do not have
>>> enough space! I have the file browser to show hidden files but it
>>> still shows a lot of free space. Is there somewhere else deleted files
>>> are hidden?
>>>
> Thanks for pointing that out Peter. Do you know what would be the best
> file system to be able to use the USB hdd on both Windows 7 and linux?
>
> Clive Woodfine
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Hi Clive,
I would say for large file support, NTFS would possible be the only
option from a Windows 7 point of view, NTFS support in Linux these days
seems very good.
I have a dual boot Windows / Ubuntu 10.10 and Ubuntu has no problems
with seeing the Windows drives and reading/writing to them, although
they are internal drives but I guess this shouldn't make to much difference.
However as it is a USB drive I seem recall that within Windows (at
least) you should always use the eject routine with NTFS, I believe that
just pulling the cable can cause problems on NTFS.
Another option would be to use an application on Windows to read EXT3, I
know there are some but dont know how reliable they are.
However some other people on the list may have better solutions.
Rgds
Peter.
