On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 08:02:03 -0600, Les Mikesell <les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 04:34, Paul McGarry wrote: > > I just purchased a 200gig drive and external USB/Firewire casing that > > I'd like to share between my desktop/server (Fedora) and my laptop > > (Win XP). > > > > Obviously XP doesn't understand ext2 (and the only 3rd party driver I > > have found is read only) and NTFS isn't fully supported on Linux. > > > > Does anyone have any suggested solutions here? > > > > I thought FAT32 might be the answer. However XP won't format a FAT32 > > partition over 32 gig so that would mean a lot of silly little > > partitions. I understand that it should be able to access larger FAT32 > > partitions but that it simply won't create them. (I get the impression > > that larger partitions might be inefficient in some way, anyone know > > if that is correct?). Is there a way to partition and format FAT32 > > disks under linux? > > > > Any other ideas? Otherwise I'll be stuck making it NTFS and having to > > use the laptop to transfer files from my desktop rather than using the > > disk directly. > > VFAT should go to 120 gigs so you might want a small ext3 and NTFS > partition as well to cover cases where you need to preserve > OS-specific attributes for each system. You'll lose any ownership > and permissions concepts on the VFAT partition. Did you try > a 120 gig or smaller size? You won't be able to go above that > in one partition but you shouldn't be stuck at 32M unless you > use the old 12-bit fat table. > > -- > Les Mikesell > les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Create an extended partition and then create logical partitions within.
