From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from imo-m19.mx.aol.com ([64.12.137.11]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1JBZXB-0002Iq-00 for ; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 12:43:41 -0500 Received: from mwhapples@aim.com by imo-m19.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r9.3.) id f.cb4.278bf185 (57881) for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 12:43:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.64] ([87.112.54.76]) by air-ia04.mail.aol.com (v121.4) with ESMTP id MAILINIA43-e2194781132a110; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 12:43:07 -0500 Subject: Finding a suitable filesystem From: Michael Whapples To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:46:15 +0000 Message-Id: <1199641575.3656.22.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AOL-IP: 87.112.54.76 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:43:41 -0000 Hello, I am wondering what filesystem is best for a USB memory stick. The problem is that fat/fat32 is very poor on the permissions, but most systems can read/write it, whereas ntfs is poorly supported under Linux (and I am not certain about how good the permission support is) and things like ext3, reiserfs and other unix FSs aren't supported on windows. So is there mount options for fat/fat32 which improves the case somewhat under Linux, or might ntfs be a good compromise as most of the Linux systems I will be using it on will be mine so I can install ntfs-3g or other drivers (and windows 9x seems to have disappeared sufficiently that I won't have too many of those), or is there a windows driver for one of the unix filesystems (and if I want to be able to use it on more than just my machine I suppose I could make a small fat32 partition where I could have the driver available should a windows machine not have it). Thanks for any pointers to information or advice people can give. From Michael Whapples