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#1 2011-09-18 21:00:57

ftglater
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NTFS vs ext3 for a Shared Partition?

Since the journaling of ext3 is disabled when it is accessed through windows, would it be better to just use NTFS on a shared partition, or does NTFS have any disadvantages as well?

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#2 2011-09-18 21:05:25

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Re: NTFS vs ext3 for a Shared Partition?

NTFS doesn't understand POSIX permissions.
A somewhat similar thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=126136

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#3 2011-09-18 22:12:13

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Re: NTFS vs ext3 for a Shared Partition?

NTFS does not support permissions as well as user_zattr, used by some indexing software. However, if it is not a problem, NTFS on Linux is supported much better, that ext3 on Windows. However, in case of some failures, you will have to fix partition in "its" OS,  due to the lack of tools.

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#4 2011-09-18 22:29:19

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Re: NTFS vs ext3 for a Shared Partition?

I've used NTFS for sharing data between my Linux and Windows installations for years, and I've never had any problems. You'll probably want to defrag it occasionally though. I defrag my shared partition once every four months or so, if I can be bothered.

Just don't do what some new converts try to do and make your entire home folder an NTFS partition. Just mount --bind, or symlink, the shared partitions's Documents/Videos/Music/etc. folders onto their corresponding /home/user folders.

If that's what you're planning on doing.


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#5 2011-09-19 01:21:41

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Re: NTFS vs ext3 for a Shared Partition?

I was actually thinking of making all of my storage NTFS so that everything could be accessed from both systems. Are you saying I would get problems with fragmentation by using NTFS for everything?

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#6 2011-09-19 04:40:23

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Re: NTFS vs ext3 for a Shared Partition?

I don't think fragmentation will be much of an issue. But since the home partition holds system files, it's better to use ext3/ext4 so that POSIX permissions work properly.

What I used to do is have an NTFS partition for all my data (like you were saying) and then edit /etc/fstab to auto mount it to /mnt/data. then inside my home directory I'd create a symbolic link that points to /mnt/data.


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