Sharing files between Ubuntu 6.06 and Windows XP Pro - best diskformat to use

[James Silverton]

Hello, Felipe!
You wrote  on Sun, 4 Feb 2007 15:52:38 +0100:

 FAS> On 2/4/07, Yagnesh Desai <ynd at lntenc.com> wrote:
 ??>> Eric;
 ??>>
 ??>> The most reliable option is to use the FAT32 file format.
 ??>> I am using it this way on my LAPTOP.

F>I guess that you mean "the easiest". FAT is anything but 
reliable.

At the moment I am not using Linux regularly but I think that is 
about to change when I install Ubuntu 6.10! Recently, I have 
been using the Live Disc version of Knoppix and have yet to have 
problems with FAT32 both reading and writing. I don't expect to 
be able to write NTFS but the files I have wanted to read have 
not given me any trouble.

I might mention that my use of Linux has been intermittent tho' 
I was excited when I first read of Linus' initial postings 
before a kernel version of 1.0 was achieved. I first tried to 
install the "Halloween Edition" of RedHat but its hardware use 
and recognition were antiquated in comparison to Slackware 2.1 
that I actually installed. For years I used versions of Suse but 
there has been a gap of a few years (for reasons that are 
unimportant :-)

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations: 
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