Re: Partitioning hard drives...

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:59:30 +0100, Ian Rawlings wrote:

On 2008-06-23, rich <rich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

All the rest is divided up into ext3 data partitions. If you do any video
editing its worth having a NTFS partition for big video files. I also have
a small fat32 partition which is shared with a winxp virtual machine.

Hmm, how big are your files? ext3 can handle a file up to 2 terabytes
in size, although with a 1k block size it'll only handle 16 gigabytes
in a single file.

Or is there some other reason for using NTFS for large files? I'd
have thought ext3 would be better as it's actually supported ;-)


You are of course correct, its more to do with the software I use (win vid
editor running in wine) that seems to balk at big files unless on my ntfs
partition. I find that ntfs-3g works fine and is handy for my portable usb
hdd that gets shared with a windows box.

--
rich
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