[Lvlug] reformat from the standard FAT 32 to NTFS for USB, HDD

[Glen Hartzell]

I generally do this all the time with a live CD partitioner and have had very few problems. I normally will set up a share partition so Win32 can share with Linux and have found that while Puppy, Vector and 'Buntu Linux's  
play very well with NTFS, there has been the occasional hiccup and I have had better luck with a FAT 32 partition on a USB share drive. That being said, I would love to find a way to force Windows to read ext3 or reiser, as most of the stuff on my share drive is larger files and and MS partitions just do not deal with large files as well. There's all that optimizing stuff to contend with. Would be a lot nicer to use a journaling FS. 

...Glen

--- On Sun, 8/2/09, John Mc <jmcneill2 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: John Mc <jmcneill2 at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [Lvlug] reformat from the standard FAT 32 to NTFS for USB, HDD
> To: lvlug at lvlug.org
> Date: Sunday, August 2, 2009, 7:46 PM
> >gparted will do this, it should
> work under KDE without any problem.
> Just make sure you are formatting the right drive. You need
> to make sure you're looking at that USB drive so as not to
> format a fixed disk. The other way to be absolutely sure
> would be to unplug your fixed disks and boot your system
> with gparted live CD. That way, the only drive available to
> the partitioner would be the USB one.  ...Glen
> 
> That is a way of accomplishing the desired result but it
> can also be done from the normal command line. Here is the
> code (for Mint):
> 
>      sudo mkntfs /dev/sdc1 
>    (after downloading the ntfs package from
> the system section of the menu)
> 
> So, I already know how to safely format to ntfs. I just
> want to know if anyone out there has done this, and what
> were the results. That is, were you happy with the results?
> Is everyone just continuing to use the standard FAT 32
> format for these USB, HDDs? Specifically, if you have
> formatted to ntfs, were you able to keep the auto-run
> software so that the USB, HDD continues to auto mount?
> 
> John
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