Re: Vfat or NTFS?
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 07:12, Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 02:47:19PM +0000, Jon Dowland wrote:
>> Last time this was asked someone suggested UDF, which I
>> thought was novel.
>>
>> You can stick a UDF filesystem onto a block device from
>> Debian using "mkudffs" in the "udftools" package.
>>
>> What nobody has clarified is whether this can be witnessed
>> from a co-installed Windows...
>
> This is god point. There is table of OS compatibility.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format
>
> I should try this :-) I have been more-or-less VFAT user. This UDF is
> good standard based cross platform file format...
>
> Osamu
Last time I tried using UDF on a USB stick, Windows wouldn't look at it.
That was XP SP3, though, I haven't tried it with Vista or 7
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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