What is the best compatible file system for linux and windows?

[R. de Kuijer]

It sounds it is the fat32 limitation, max. 32 gig for a filesystem.

Maybe a option to format the drive with ext3 as one 80 gig partition.
Use the Linux machine as a samba-server (smb) and make the external 
drive a samba-share.

Point at the windo$ machine to the external drive.

If you are not familiar with samba, search at Google for "linux home 
networking".
There is a site sounds like "linux-home-networking.org" or something 
like that, which help you easily to setup a samba-server.
And use the swat-tool, that a very helpfull one.

Success
Ronno

Jack Challen wrote:
> Budi Febrianto wrote:
>   
>>     Once I format the external harddisk with fat32 with 80 GB partition.
>> In linux it can read/write fine, but in windows... not. Maybe I did it
>> wrong. I'll try again.
>> I'm using windows in office, and linux at home. That why I need to
>> access the external hd from different os.
>>     
>
>
> Try using (from linux)
>
> mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/sda1
>
> to create your filesystem. Obviously this will depend on your hardware
> path, and remove any existing data on that partition.
>
> Works for me
> jack
>
>   

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