Re: [PLUG] Strange behavior in external hd

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@gmail.com>]

Thanks, I've never used the ext4 for windows driver.  The ntfs-3g seems to 
work well in most places I've tried, but not Kubuntu, and that is my 
experience with two separate machines (both 8.04).



On Monday 15 December 2008 12:26:56 Gordon Dexter wrote:
> The trouble with ext3 for sharing from Windows to Linux is that the
> Windows driver is really poor.  I've seen it cause all sorts of
> filesystem issues and errors.  In comparison, the NTFS3G driver is much
> better, from everything I've heard.
>
> --Gordon
>
> Art Alexion wrote:
> > I have this slim portable HD that I formatted ntfs so I could use it with
> > win and lin.
> >
> > Kubuntu really hates it. Ubuntu complains, but if you do what it says, it
> > works fine with it.
> >
> > With Kubuntu 8.04/KDE 3.5.10, if the fs seems dirty, it ignores it. 
> > dmesg throws out some errors, but hal does nothing.
> >
> > With Ubuntu 8.04 eee, hal might complain that the file system is dirty. 
> > All I have to do is mount it manually and unmount it cleanly, and it
> > works fine.
> >
> > At that point, the Kubuntu hal will mount it, but the access is really,
> > really slow.
> >
> > Any ideas on the difference?
> >
> > Would reformatting it ext3 help?
> >
> > I was thinking I'd create a really small fat32 partion and put the ext3
> > driver for windows there so that I could install it if I ever need it on
> > a windows system.
> >

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