On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Robert Heller a écrit : > >> Will FAT support the larger external disks, such as the .5TB and larger? > > > I read the replies to my previous posts, and I get your point, since I > didn't know about the various limitations. It's probably due to the fact > that we're 100% GNU/Linux here. I haven't booted Windows for work since > before the time Windows XP came out (around 2001). The only time I get > to "work" on Windows is usually to retrieve data before moving it to > CentOS. As far as external hard disks are concerned, they're all ext3 > here. Whenever the odd non-Linux user has to exchange data with Linux > here, he or she has to use a Samba share. > > So I admit my point of view is somewhat biased :o) However one point you make is still valid. There is no alternative to NTFS nowadays if you need so share files between Windows and Linux. It is a shame there are not better Ext3/Ext4 drivers that integrate properly into Windows. Something similar to ntfs-3g must be easier to write for ext3 on Windows (as the ext3 format is well-known). -- -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, info at dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]