> James, > > Vfat, I think, is your only choice for both windows and Linux. > > We have a USB/Firewire drive here and I found that using vfat is the > easiest way. There appears to be a 2 GB file size limitation for vfat. > To get around this, I formatted mine as ext3 and shared it via samba. > While not a portable solution it works in the office. > > Bob... Thanks for all the replies. I guess I'll just stick with ext3 since I don't want the 2gig limit. Good information though, thanks! James