How can I share files between Windows Vista and Ubuntu Linux?

[SickBeast]

Hi,

What File System should I use when I format for Ubuntu?

When I had it running before I could never share files between Windows and Linux because they use different systems that are mutually incompatible.

Ideas?

 

[xtknight]

Use NTFS for Vista and ext3 for Ubuntu. You can read files off of an NTFS partition from Ubuntu natively, and by using a program called explore2fs (you may have to enable various XP compatibility options to get it to work) you can read ext2/ext3 partitions. Writing may not be so easy: you have one of two options:

a) Try an Ext2 IFS driver for WinXP+ (whose ext3 support may be questionable as ext3 is a journaling file system even though it's backwards compatible [you'd have to research that one some more])
b) Try semi-stable ntfs-3g write support for Ubuntu

 

[Underclocked]

http://www.fs-driver.org/ might work for sharing some files between Vista and Linux. I've read that it works but can't attest to that.