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waynevnc
07-06-2004, 06:11 PM
What are the advantages/disadvantages of changing a fat32 parttion to ext3?

I have a 170G drive that I converted from NTFS to fat32. I was thinking now my file server is Linux (Debian 3, kernel 2.4 with Samba) that maybe I should change the drive over to ext3. Is this a good idea or should I leave it as is? What about security, permission & speed issues?

Any thoughts??
Thanks
Wayne

j79zlr
07-06-2004, 06:18 PM
journaling file system, and afaik fat32 doesn't support unix permissions.