Which file system best to use?
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    rms
    Posts: 599 from 2004/11/27
    Hi,

    I bought an externat 1.8" USB drive and this drive has "NTFS" or "exFAT" as file system available.

    Has anyone experience which one would be better to use with MorphOS? Also which FS would be MOST compatible with SFS? What I mean is about file names length, comments, extensions... when I copy files to it or from it.

    Thanks in advance for infos!
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    Golem
    Posts: 766 from 2003/2/28
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    Depends if other systems than MorphOS are going to read this drive, NTFS is read-only under MorphOS and exFAT is not supported. So... neither would be the answer as far as those two are concerned.

    You should be able to repartition it with HDConfig, that way you can use SFS or maybe ext2/FAT32 for better compatibility with other systems.
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    Posts: 599 from 2004/11/27
    HD config proposed automatically Fat32L and that is what I use now. I'm testing the drive and it seems to work fine.
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