What are the file systems that are both accessible in Windows and Linux(Ubuntu 10. 4 )?
By Administrator on Dec 4, 2010 in Ubuntu 10.04
I have two tricky disks in my PC.
one has NTFS file system with Windows 7 OS and the other has Ubuntu. I pick amongst them at boot time. But the second tricky disk is not accessible when i log into my windows. What to do?
I can reformat and install Ubuntu but which file system am i allowed to use.
Please help
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Triforcer | Dec 4, 2010 | Reply
There are none. You need a mac.
Fraggle | Dec 4, 2010 | Reply
Linux can read NTFS with NTFS-3G – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS-3G
Samrat Agarwal | Dec 4, 2010 | Reply
ubuntu can recognize any file system but windows can recognize only ntfs or fat….you need a third party application which install ubuntu file system ext3 0r ext4 drivers in windows….and you can find that app at http://www.ext2fsd.com
Toby | Dec 4, 2010 | Reply
While Fraggle is correct that Ubuntu can see NTFS, it wouldn’t be a good idea to install Ubuntu onto NTFS. I’m not sure it would even work without Wubi. Your file permissions in Ubuntu will definitely be screwed up.
I suggest that you format Ubuntu as Ext3 (Starting with 10.04 the default is Ext4). Then install this program that allows Windows to see Ext3 disks: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd/
London | Dec 4, 2010 | Reply
ext2fsd.com says it doesn’t support Windows 7 yet, so that’s probably a no-go.
What you could do is create a separate data partition in ntfs that can be shared between the two OS’s.
On that second hard drive you can make it something like this:
/ 15GB ext4
/home 10GB ext4
/data Rest of Hard Disk NTFS
D | Dec 4, 2010 | Reply
Windows does not natively read any other hard disk formats except FAT and NTFS. You could try a third party driver, but I’ve never been able to get them to work on ext3 or ext4.
hono785 | Dec 4, 2010 | Reply
You can use ext3 or ext4 and Linux will read Windows 7 file system. Ext4 does have it’s advantages, what i run is mount the Windows disk at start up and use the music, videos, pictures, and documents folders in Windows as my save directories for Linux. That way i only have the copies of the files in Windows allocated property. If i need to edit / convert / change anything I can do it from the Linux OS side, while not taking any file space in the Linux side. I can do pretty much everything from the Linux side to Windows. Of course, you have to log out – log into Windows to run what you need in Windows, but i found that it also keeps Windows clean due to the fact that i don’t need to install or change Windows much. You can also, run Linux under Windows 7 with VMWare player or vice-versa, although i found after changing the display resolution the window is only about 85% full-screen which is really o.k. I take it you dual boot with GRUB2 so the Linux side takes care of Windows just fine…
see this i.e.
http://lifehacker.com/5403100/dual+boot-windows-7-and-ubuntu-in-perfect-harmony
using NTFS Config Tool.
Dual – boot yhea
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jerry t | Dec 4, 2010 | Reply
If you are using ext4 for ubuntu that might be a little more difficult. THis articles expalins how to do it.