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

[Jack Challen]

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