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[Mr ChriZ]

I bought a new USB drive the other day 500GB.
I'd copied 250GB of stuff across to it when a message came
up that the file I was trying to copy was to big for the file system.

Fat32 has a file size limit of something like 4GB.

The drive isn't to quick so I wasn't relishing the thought of
re-formatting it.

Luckilly I suddenly remembered that when upgraded Windows 98 -> Win2k
it allowed you to convert to NTFS... so theoretically it must be still possible.
A bit of google searching led me to this
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb456984.aspx

And 20 minutes later... the drive is now NTFS, with my files still on board.

Thought someone might find that useful.

[KingSparta]

Yes NTFS Is Better.

Not Sure if It Is Perfect However.

I think Unix Was Better At One Point Not Sure If That Is Still True.

[ThoBar]

Yes NTFS Is Better.

Not Sure if It Is Perfect However.

I think Unix Was Better At One Point Not Sure If That Is Still True.

For the most part, NTFS is a very robust FS. Stay away from FAT unless you HAVE to use it.

It's not journaled, so any distruption is more likely to cause file/file system errors.

[newsposter]

which 'unix' is better?  There are several dozen journaled/logged file systems available for 'unix'.

[leezer3]

Ext3
Nothing else is as mature unfortunately. Some of the other filesystems are faster, or have slightly better features (Biggest is the subdirectory limit, although most users shouldn't hit this), but none are yet as stable.
If you're looking for speed, I'd try ReiserFS- Fastest normally by a decent margin, and 99% of the time there is no risk of data loss, but its not quite at EXT3 levels yet.

Cheers

-Leezer-

[Mr ChriZ]

Can EXT3 be read/written by Windows?
Does it have any advantages over NTFS for the every day user?
I don't know much about it, other than that it exists!

[ThoBar]

Can EXT3 be read/written by Windows?
Does it have any advantages over NTFS for the every day user?
I don't know much about it, other than that it exists!

If its on a windows machine - stick with NTFS. It's native and there are no advantages for the most users to go to another FS

If it's on a linux box (eg a server), my pick would be ReiserFS, over ext3 - Reiser is now the default for SUSE I believe. As leeser says, there are a bunch of others, but it's mainly ext2,ext3 and reiser that get the love.