File System for USB Disk?

[James Pifer]

On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 08:31, James Pifer wrote:
> I have 160 gig hard disk installed in a USB 2 enclosure.
> 
> What is the best file system to put on it?
> 
> It would be nice to be able to plug it into both Linux and Windows
> machines. Obviously NTFS is not an option. Windows can't read linux
> drives. So what does that leave me with?
> 
> Linux is my primary choice, so I put ext3 on it using qtparted. 
> 
> When I plug it into my laptop, the light on the usb enclosure flashes,
> but I don't see anything under /media. Is there any way to force a
> refresh? /etc/fstab has this:
> /dev/sdb1               /media/usbdisk          ext3   
> pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
> 
> Once I get that working, how do I deal with permissions since my userid
> will not be able to write to it? Should I give my userid ownership of
> /media/usbdisk? Will those permissions "stick" when I remove and plug
> the drive in again?
> 

Got some of it working. /media/usbdisk wasn't there so I created it and
gave my userid permissions. Now when I plug in the drive I get the
Removable Device icon on the desktop and I can open it, read/write, etc.
Still looking for suggestions on the file system if anyone has one. 

Thanks,
James