Matt Hyclak wrote:
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:43:46PM -0400, David A. Woyciesjes enlightened us:
Scott Silva wrote:
The best common denominator would be fat32 on the external. Linux, Windows, and I think even the Macs can read and write to it. The biggest limit to fat32 is the maximum of 2 gig file sizes...
Thought about it, and discarded it. IIRC, there is a ~32GB partition limit for FAT32. Or at least WinXP won't create them bigger than that. Considering the files I'll be storing, I don't want to deal with 3+ different partitions on the external drive. :)
Time for a number check:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAT32 claims 4GB filesize, and 8TB partition size. the 32GB partition limit is a WinXP-ism to make people use NTFS.
I stand corrected. And this time I don't mind being told I'm wrong...;-) And if you're like me (don't trust Wikipedia as far as you can throw it) here's the info from MS directly... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/184006/en-us http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314463/EN-US/
I think I may just use FAT32 then... :) And yes, I am aware of the fact that FAT32 does nothing with user permissions...