[WBEL-users] 60GB HD

[Jan-Albert van Ree]

On Monday 08 November 2004 20:56, Ganeshram Iyer wrote:
> I know this question is not Whitebox specific but I had a question
> regarding a 60GB USB HD which I want to mount and format using Whitebox.
> What file system do I need to use to ensure that this HD can be read
> using both Window as well Linux?

If just reading under Linux is sufficient, and write/read under Windows, you 
can use NTFS, and grab the NTFS package and build your own RPM's (or fetch 
them somewhere, I've got NTFS RPM's at 
http://www.vanree.net/wbel30/personal/ , they need to match your WBEL 
kernel!) I mount my Windows XP partition this way. I used FAT32 for my 
games/"data" partition (real data never goes beyond my Linux install, thus 
on EXT3)

If you want to read+write under Linux you're stuck with FAT32 as far as I 
know, and you'll have to split the disk, FAT32 IIRC doesn't go beyond about 
32 GB.
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