Filesystem Shared by Windows and Fedora

[daviddoria]

Which filesystem would you use on an external drive that needs to be read/written by both windows and linux?

What about an external drive shared by many linux systems (ie. preventing write permission problems)?

Thanks,

Dave

[druidmatrix]

Are there any choices other than FAT32 when the sharing is between windows and linux?

I guess NTFS would also work if you load the required mods in your linux kernel, but I think permissions would be a problem regardless.

[HROAdmin26]

NTFS using the NTFS-3G Fuse driver in Linux and umask=0 mount option.

[devils casper]

I guess NTFS would also work if you load the required mods in your linux kernel, but I think permissions would be a problem regardless.

There is no need to do anything special with kernel for NTFS support. As HROAdmin26 suggested already, ntfs-3g package enables NTFS read/write access and permissions is not a problem at all. ntfs-3g package is pre-installed in most of distros including Fedora. One has to install it in RHEL though.