NTFS on Linux vs Ext3 on Windows

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Jaeger70

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Hello,

I am working on XP and Ubuntu parallely and therefore I need a filesystem that works on both OS. I was working with fat32 until now but 1. it is not very secure and 2. you get no links.

NTFS and Ext3 both fulfill my desires but I am not sure which one I should use. Can you tell me your opinion, rumours you heard on how stable both systems are working and so on.

My favorite is Ext3. I am also primary working on linux.

Thanks.
 
XP needs a FAT/NTFS partition to operate from. XP will not natively support ext3, but you can get tools to read from those drives within XP.

Ubuntu will not install to NTFS. The latest version of Ubuntu does have built in support for mounting/modifying NTFS partitions.

As a storage drive, NTFS looks like it would be the easiest for you. For OS partitions, Fat32 is your only option to have both OSes run in the same file system (not the same partition mind you).
 
look up FUSE file system in user space or whatever it stands for, which is an open source project for mounting all sorts of file systems on systems that don't run those file systems natively. It allows for you to mount NTFS volumes with full read/write on HFS+ and ext3 file systems. Normally you can mount NTFS on almost any modern file system, the problem is, it will mount read only unless you use like FUSE or another utility similar.
 
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