ext? as fat or ntfs?

[Stephen]

sadly there is no natively supported file system for dos/windows that
is not fat or fat32 without installing drivers to windows.

and these cannot quite be done automagically

the closest you can get is fat (as vfat and fat32 have MS patents)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table




On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Ryan Rix<phrkonaleash at gmail.com> wrote:
> Stephen wrote:
>> For me with linux/windows i woudl create Fat 32 on volumes 2gb or less
>> or ntfs on volumes larger.
>>
>> not the best choice but it is the most simple and portable one. fat
>> will even allow OSX compatability.
>>
>> anything more complicated tar-gzip and a portable version of 7zip or
>> winrar if you need to keep complex file structures and permissions.
>>
>
> Right, but ntfs is strictly nonfree. Hans wants to get around ntfs/fat
> in total, at a physcial partition level.
>
> Ryan
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