I am installing a 2TB drive on an Ubuntu server that will be accessible on a network of Windows and Ubuntu machines. Should I format it using FAT32 or EXT3/4?
Thanks
David C
I am installing a 2TB drive on an Ubuntu server that will be accessible on a network of Windows and Ubuntu machines. Should I format it using FAT32 or EXT3/4?
Thanks
David C
The /
folder of Ubuntu should be ext, it can be ext
, ext2
, ext3
, or ext4
, but better off stick with ext4
.
However, you will be able to read and write data to FAT32 or NTFS or ext partitions, so you just need your /
partitions(analogous to the C: drive for windows) to be ext.
Ext4 is preferred. It has better performance than ext3, and FAT32 is not a journaled filesystem, so is at higher risk of data loss.
The way you share it (i.e. NFS, Samba/CIFS) should abstract the filesystem itself, allowing a Windows system to interact with it, even though Windows doesn't natively handle ext4.