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I'm thinking of doing the UDF thing to share files between windows and linux.
Is UDF a viable option for /home Is UDF a viable option for / Can windows XP correctly read sparse files I created in linux from UDF
As long as it doesn't break things I was going to rsync my ext3 backup drive over to UDF so I can see it in windows is this reliable?
sabgenton
Posted 2011-06-28T13:28:56.783
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You will be fine with windows 7, not so much with XP. See here for more details.
soandos
Posted 2011-06-28T13:28:56.783
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What's worse is that I've never found an acceptable driver allowing for writing to UDF-formatted external HDs for XP. Otherwise it'd be awesome. – afrazier – 2011-06-28T14:12:28.213
Wikidia lists two (in the note section for XP) – soandos – 2011-06-28T14:14:58.597
Is 2.0 ok for xp if you only want read only? .. no sparse that's a big thumbs down for me. – sabgenton – 2011-06-28T14:17:09.923
Ok so vista and up is good. Now I just want to know if I can happily rsync my ext3 drive to it. – sabgenton – 2011-06-28T14:18:56.210
@soandos: I know DLA doesn't work, and I'm pretty sure that InCD doesn't. See here for more info. (I'd forgotten about WriteUDF.)
– afrazier – 2011-06-28T14:25:11.290I dont know any more, sorry. – soandos – 2011-06-28T14:30:02.103
Should be closed as a duplicate of https://superuser.com/questions/45130/cross-platform-file-system
– MarcH – 2017-08-13T12:36:22.847Why not just use NTFS? – user1686 – 2011-06-28T20:54:42.160
http://superuser.com/questions/39942/using-udf-on-a-usb-flash-drive – MarcH – 2012-05-15T09:32:06.767