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Anyone used ext3 filesystem on Windows?
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RE: Anyone used ext3 filesystem on Windows?
Starfox444 Wrote:I was wondering how it compares in terms of capacity. I remember reformatting a flash drive that was FAT32 to NTFS and it gained an extra 100 MB of capacity.
NTFS _should_ always take up more space than FAT32.  Even on a blank drive, NTFS will consume a fair about of space.
NTFS has to store stuff like ACLs and Journaling info, which FAT doesn't store.

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Joomla12 Wrote:Does this support EXT4?

Maybe that's why it crapped up for me...
Doesn't support ext4, though it may be backwards compatible.
Quote:The ext4 filesystem is backward compatible with ext3 and ext2, making it possible to mount ext3 and ext2 filesystems as ext4. This will already slightly improve performance, because certain new features of ext4 can also be used with ext3 and ext2, such as the new block allocation algorithm.

The ext3 file system is partially forward compatible with ext4, that is, an ext4 filesystem can be mounted as an ext3 partition (using "ext3" as the filesystem type when mounting). However, if the ext4 partition uses extents (a major new feature of ext4), then the ability to mount the file system as ext3 is lost.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4
13/12/2009 04:56 PM
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RE: Anyone used ext3 filesystem on Windows? - ZiNgA BuRgA - 13/12/2009 04:56 PM

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