usb hard drive sharing - Help
This is a discussion on usb hard drive sharing - Help ; I am about to purchase a 180gig external hard drive that will be used with a
laptoprunning linux and a pc runinng windows. I am looking for a good
filesystem to use on it. Fat32 is out of the question ...
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usb hard drive sharing
I am about to purchase a 180gig external hard drive that will be used with a
laptoprunning linux and a pc runinng windows. I am looking for a good
filesystem to use on it. Fat32 is out of the question as I commonly use
files in excess of 8 gigs both windows and linux have a solution for the
file size problem but is there a filesystem that both can read and write to
safely. I know there was a patch floating around that would let linux write
to ntfs but it was unstable. If there is not a filesytem that both can write
to is it possible to make it ntfs and then mount it as a samba share or can
linux still not write to it then ?
Any help is greatly apprecieated.
Bruce
www.smalltownpoets.net
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Re: usb hard drive sharing
Bruce Durham posted on Sat, 07 Feb 2004 10:59:28 -0500:
> is it possible to make it ntfs and
leave it connected to the PC running Windows. Share the drive in Windows
then from Linux mount the shared drive via Samba. Or you could format the
drive with a Linux filesystem like xfs or jfs and share the external hard
drive's partition(s) via Samba or NFS from the Linux laptop. The
filesystem of the drive makes no difference when reading/writing to it
when it's a networked shared resource.
It might be a good idea to partition the drive for 'stand-alone' use on
either system. One partition for native Windows usage and one for Linux.
Linux can at least read NTFS and with the installation of the explore2fs
(http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm) you can read the
ext2/3 filesystems from Windows.
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Re: usb hard drive sharing
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> Bruce Durham posted on Sat, 07 Feb 2004 10:59:28 -0500:
>
> > is it possible to make it ntfs and
>
> leave it connected to the PC running Windows. Share the drive in Windows
> then from Linux mount the shared drive via Samba. Or you could format the
> drive with a Linux filesystem like xfs or jfs and share the external hard
> drive's partition(s) via Samba or NFS from the Linux laptop. The
> filesystem of the drive makes no difference when reading/writing to it
> when it's a networked shared resource.
>
> It might be a good idea to partition the drive for 'stand-alone' use on
> either system. One partition for native Windows usage and one for Linux.
> Linux can at least read NTFS and with the installation of the explore2fs
> (http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm) you can read the
> ext2/3 filesystems from Windows.
>
>
>
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Thank you for your help.
