best partition on linux/windows
 

dear sirs

which is the best partition that work with windows and linux same time. like vfat fat32 or fatex etc advise.

regards
salim

If your asking if you can use 1 filesystem to install both Linux and Windows, then No. That does not exist. Modern Linux distros use ext3 or ext4 while Windows XP onward usually uses NTFS.

Since modern distros can now read & write to NTFS, this not a big issue anymore. If you want a shared partition that can be accessed from both Windows and Linux, then the best choice is still FAT32.(called vfat in Linux)

Beware though as FAT32 is not fault tolerant & has file size limitations.

Assuming you mean sharing a partition for storage..
Personally always using ext3, no issues at all.
Using this driver to access it from Windows, there are other methods though..

It is possible to have Linux installed on the same filesystem as Windows. ZipSlack is an excellent example of this - as it used the UMSDOS filesystem which allowed it to coexist on the same partition as Windows. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZipSlack

However, UMSDOS is an old technology that is not being supported in the newer kernels. The best filesystem depends on how you plan on using it and which OS you plan on spending most of your time in. Both ongte and kellemes bring up good topics.

Dear gurus

great views opnion comes welcome

but sir this is usb hard drive that i carry data sometime on windows and sometime on linux. the main problem it has some problem. from windows i can format as ntfs using windows xp etc. from linux i can use any linux partition format like ext2,ext3.

i try all above mention tools it provide read only.

using windows, as linux partition i can copy from usb drive to harddisk. but vice versa not possible due to no write access.

so i was looking what possible best option i should use for both. the next fat32 does not support also 120 gb usb hard drive for formatting.

gparted help to partition and it never identify what is wrong with your harddisk and it never fixed for u

regards
salim

Are you using the external hard drive to hold data and/or the OS?

If you are using it to only hold data, format it using NTFS. Then check out NTFS-3G for Linux.

If you are running the OS from the external hard drive, my recommendation is to create two partitions on the external hard drive.

I think FAT32 has a size limitation for the file system, like 64GB. I would try NTFS, but mount the drive like this:

su
password:
mount rw,user /dev/sda1 /mnt/ntfs -t ntfs

I think the default for ntfs is ro, not rw.

I have a 250GB Drive formated in FAT32, the only limitation is an individual file cannot be larger than 2GB. Windows refused to format FAT32 on any disk larger than 40GB. This is only a limit imposed by the Windows Disk Management. You can use fdisk/parted/gparted in Linux to create and format FAT32 partitions of any size up to 2TB.

The kernel ntfs driver is read-only. That said, any distro released in the last 2 years will include ntfs-3g, which enables NTFS read/write. So it should not be a problem for you to format the disk as NTFS in windows & use it seamlessly in Linux. (Assuming you are running a modern up-to-date distro)

WTF? the kernel driver since 2.6 has been r/w .

Dude. It's not. All read/write support is done through fuse with ntfs-3g.