[SOLVED] UDF

JamesGT · 09-09-2010, 08:03 PM

I have a new external 500gb drive I want to format and put data on.

I first formatted it as Fat32 as I'd like to access it with Windows at some point. I ended up having a few files over 4gb, so that didn't work.

I'd like to use UDF as the file format. Does anyone see any issues with formatting a 500GB drive with UDF? I don't see any reason why I would want to WRITE to the drive in Windows, just read...but there is software out there to allow Windows XP to write to a UDF drive if I needed to.

JamesGT · 09-09-2010, 10:44 PM

WEll, I found one reason. 100GB of overhead...geesh.

disturbed1 · 09-09-2010, 11:17 PM

Windows can read/write ext3. http://www.ext2fsd.com/
ReiserFS is supported in read only, and perhaps other limitations.
http://p-nand-q.com/e/reiserfs.html
http://www2.hs-esslingen.de/~zimmerm...re/ltools.html

I'd give ext3 a shot and see how that works.

You could always format as NTFS. Linux has had long time NTFS read support, and recently (in the last year or so) stable write support for NTFS.
Guess you need to count which OS's will have the bulk majority of access to the drive. If there are more Microsoft PC's, use an MS file system. More Linux PC's? Use a native Linux file system.

JamesGT · 09-09-2010, 11:43 PM

It'll mainly be attached to THIS pc. Rarely attached to any others.

I decided to F Windows support and went with JFS.

Jeebizz · 09-10-2010, 10:01 AM

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Originally Posted by JamesGT

I decided to F Windows support and went with JFS.

An excellent choice in FS if I do say so myself.