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The Best Filesystem for an external hard disk of 1TB with cross platform support

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 4, 2012

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“A possible solution it’s to split your hard drive in multiple
partitions and dedicate each one to an Operating system, so for
example you could have 25% of your disk with a Fat32, 25% with NTFS
and 50% with Ext4. Personally i don’t like too much this solution,
sure you can use a native file system in every operating system,
but you also have all the possible problems in mounting a different
FS, and I’m sure that I happen to have the right documents in the
wrong partition.

“So, for me the best solution it’s to have 1 partition and 1 big
filesystem.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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