NTFS vs ext3 ext4

[microchip8]

Originally Posted by michael_cheah

Yes, what you said is true. But I think the point is for openSUSE install on internal HDD one should always format the partition as ext3/ext4. If there is a need of transferring the file to another PC which only has Windows on it, I always copies the file into my external HDD which is NTFS. FAT32 will works as well.

Somewhat correct but not entirely. Read his original post. He has a 300GB internal drive which he'll install openSUSE on and was asking which FS he should choose for a separate partition for data storage (movies, music, books, etc). He didn't state if he has an external drive he can take with him. He may just want to have Linux on this internal drive but leave a Win compatible FS on a specific partition if he may need to take the drive with him... that's what I got from his post. If this is his intention and he has no external drive, then NTFS will be the slightly better option, though as already said by oldcpu, defragging will not be possible under Linux and if the driver somehow leaves the FS dirty, he'll need a Windows system to fix that. It's a trade off

[michael_cheah]

Originally Posted by microchip8

Somewhat correct but not entirely. Read his original post. He has a 300GB internal drive which he'll install openSUSE on and was asking which FS he should choose for a separate partition for data storage (movies, music, books, etc). He didn't state if he has an external drive he can take with him. He may just want to have Linux on this internal drive but leave a Win compatible FS on a specific partition if he may need to take the drive with him... that's what I got from his post. If this is his intention and he has no external drive, then NTFS will be the slightly better option, though as already said by oldcpu, defragging will not be possible under Linux and if the driver somehow leaves the FS dirty, he'll need a Windows system to fix that. It's a trade off

I see.. Now it's clear to me. Well as he himself said, defragmentation should not be a big problem, and I agree with that as long as he has enough free space on his NTFS partition and little random write. As for the worries about getting a 'dirty' NTFS partition, the only times myself got that is when it was mounted by Windows and the partition was not properly unmounted. I dont have this problem if the partition is mounted by ntfs-3g driver and was forced to hard reset my machine (as long as the system isn't writing anything into it, but I can't be sure about that).