Viruses... what to do...

[dogsinafen]

Ewwwwww fat32 worst format ever.

I just installed win7 couple of hours ago... took me around 20mins.

[fohfoh]

Ewwwwww fat32 worst format ever.

I just installed win7 couple of hours ago... took me around 20mins.

Just need something that both linux and windows can read.

Yes, win7 takes 20 mins to install. (Love that aspect) but updates rolls another hour to two at least for all the half installs and restarts required to do the installation of updates. Then installation of the other programs etc.

Same thing for ubuntu, except I just have to wait once (like 1-2 hours for the like 900 different updates required)

[dogsinafen]

I did not have that many updates to do... Probably took me a extra 20mins ish to install programs and drives that I wanted.

To bad NTFS is not a open source format... would be great.

[Freedom Kira]

I thought Linux could read/write to NTFS volumes. I have an NTFS ext HDD that Ubuntu is fine with. Or is it partitioning that's the problem?

[Mirgond]

Linux can read and write on ntfs without problems (see ntfs3g).
So you have not need for FAT as filesystem.

Now, if Windows could only write and read on ext4...

[fohfoh]

Linux can read and write on ntfs without problems (see ntfs3g).
So you have not need for FAT as filesystem.

Now, if Windows could only write and read on ext4...

Holy shit. Good news I think! Will test.

But as long as multiple NTFS isn't an issue. (Want 1 partition which splits/needs 2 for Win 7 OS, 1 for shared files, 1 for Ubuntu (which needs 2 parts I think as well)