Re: [ALUG] Shared Hard Drives for windows and Linux

On Thursday 01 April 2004 13:37, Stuart Hammond wrote:

Dear All

I have a dual Hard drive systme which i am planning on booting both Linux and Windows XP one of the hard drives is givin over exclusivly to media (music movies ETC.) what i would apprecated advice on is:

1) Whats the best Format for the shared Hard Drive

I don't know what XP uses but i would suggest vfat as linux does not yet fully support ntfs.

2) What is the best loss less compression for music which can be used both in linux and windows (i was thinking FLAC but i havnt had any experince of it)

I would say FAC too.

And a bit off topic:

3) Any Good Free (as in beer) CD rippers for windows which compress to FLAC or simmiler

Pass Ian