26 Mar
2006
26 Mar
'06
4:11 a.m.
On Saturday 25 March 2006 14:29, Rony Bill wrote:
I agree. FAT32 will get the usb drive automatically mounted on any machine, windows or linux, subject to the OS having auto mounting features. NTFS too should work, my client recently got a Hitachi portable 40 GB usb HDD for 3K9 and the shop guy formatted it with ntfs. It can be detected automatically by XP as well as Ubuntu 5.10.
Yes, NTFS works pretty well but there is one problem. NTFS write support is still not stable. Only some bleeding edge distros have it. So FAT32 seems a better choice.
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Dinesh A. Joshi