Windows Vista File Systems

FirebarUK · 20 Apr 2007 at 12:04

What FS' can Windows Vista support out of the box? I need a filesystem reliably read/writeable from Linux but with support for files of 15GB+ in size. I was thinking XFS or something, but no idea if Vista supports this.

something daft already!! · 20 Apr 2007 at 12:15

Linux can read and write to FAT32 and FAT16 file fromat. It "Can" read NTFS, but if you try and write to it it will probly trash the drive! So Vista supports FAT32 so go with that I guess.

Vista does not supprt XFS

FirebarUK · 20 Apr 2007 at 12:24

FAT32 doesnt allow file sizes of 15GB (I think the max file size is something like 3GB?).

Thanks for your help anyhow, but I should have stated I was wondering if it supported anything other than FATXX or NTFS. I suspected not (typical MS) but was hopeful...

As you say, I don't really want to write to NTFS from within linux as these files are very important. Not to mention the performance would be pretty dire.

something daft already!! · 20 Apr 2007 at 12:58

FirebarUK said:
FAT32 doesnt allow file sizes of 15GB (I think the max file size is something like 3GB?).

Thanks for your help anyhow, but I should have stated I was wondering if it supported anything other than FATXX or NTFS. I suspected not (typical MS) but was hopeful...

As you say, I don't really want to write to NTFS from within linux as these files are very important. Not to mention the performance would be pretty dire.

You could always dual boot with two hard drives and copy over the data you need between the two. For example, you could install vista on one fat32 hard drive and Linux on xfs, boot into Linux and copy the files around. Might be a bit slow tho as they are 15gb! I missed that first time around, so it wont work! Oh well, worth a try I guess!