Paul Gear wrote: > Tom Sparks wrote: > >> so what other option do have for formating my drive that can be read in >> windows or should i forget windows compatibility? >> >> > > There are no good options that allow you to set permissions on > individual files and include Windows compatibility. > > If you are willing to forego permissions, NTFS and FAT32 both are will > work. If you're not willing to forego permissions, Samba is an option. > > Paul > > If you're looking to read a drive in Windows in a dual-boot situation, I'd recommend formatting the drive as ext2 and installing fs-drive http://www.fs-driver.org/
It's a small programme that allows Windows to read & write to ext2 volumes If you need journalling as well, it will work with ext3 volumes as well. Also, any permissions will not be apparent within Windows (since it doesn't support it) -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
