ext4 features several improvements over its predecessor, amongst which include support for files upto 16 tebibytes ( 1 tebibytes equals 1,024 gibibyes, with 1gibibyte equal to 1.074 gigabytes) and a maximum volume size of upto 1 Exbibyte. The answer depends on your precise requirements.Įxt4 has become the default filesystem for several of the popular Linux distributions including Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE. So it is an option, even given what I've said. Of course you may be 99.99999% certain you'll never touch Windows (lucky you if that's the case :-) ) but my point is just it's difficult to fully judge future requirements, and so for the sake of losing the few benefits you'd get from Ext4 on an external drive, you're probably best going with fat32 - if just for compatibility reasons.īut, as I mentioned above, it's worth noting you can access Ext3 drives on Windows (not sure about Ext4) - it's just a hassle to get access to them set up on Windows 7. Although it was possible by installing extfs on the Windows VM, the settings wouldn't save - so now whenever I need Windows, the first thing I have to do is hunt down the extfs installer, configure, then I can access the drive. Later, I had a requirement to install Windows 7 as a Virtual Machine and wanted to access files on the external drive. I was in a similar position to you a couple of years back. I would say no, simply because, for your own convenience, you may well want to use it on other machines in the future.
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