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File systems fully read/writeable in Linux AND Windows

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Sureshot324

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What is the best file system to use for a partition that needs to be fully read and writeable in both linux and windows? I know fat32 works for this, but it's a very old file system and there are much better ones now. Is there good ntfs support in linux yet? Is there any way to make windows compatible with the common linux filesystems like ext3, reiserfs, xfs, etc?
 
NTFS is getting better; but still pretty much read only(my understanding is that there is now a safe write mode; but it has very limited power).

http://www.fs-driver.org/ seems to offer some hope for reading ext2/3 in Windows; but I have no idea how well it works in practice. At very least, the current nonsupport for permissions would make me quite nervous indeed, unless this was a partition dedicated to nothing but your documents, with no chance of mucking the permissions of important system stuff.

I'd probably still go with fat32, much as it pains me to say so. I do wish MS would support another filesystem or two.
 
I had RO support for ext3 in windows a while back. worked OK, but not having write support sucks, just use the network.
 
I use a network server to dump anything to if I ever need to transfer between OS's. FAT32 is too old and buggy for me. Plus I would rather get the most space out of my hard drives instead of worrying about a FAT32 partition
 
I've not found anything better than a hsared FAT32 partition, next to using networking. There are ext2/3 and RFS drivers for Windows, but they're not exactly in the shape of the *n*x drivers. I think there are XFS, too, but I'm not 100% sure on that. I've tried to get to having just a *n*x (usually RFS) and NTFS partition, but it was just not fun, to put it mildly (both trying the NTFS driver writing, and using Captive, and just getting Captive to work in the first place).

I feel your pain, though--FAT32 + many small text files = tons of wasted space, and still no journaling, on top of it requiring extra partitions/drives.

Now, if this virtualization thing that's been started could allow one drive to be controlled by a linux OS running a SAMBA server...😀
 
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