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Old 25th October 2015
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Post Create an EXT2 filesystem and use revision 0 (aka GOOD_OLD_REV) as the format

The best way to share a partition with Linux is to create an EXT2 filesystem and use revision 0 (aka GOOD_OLD_REV) as the filesystem format.

By using the GOOD_OLD_REV (revision 0) format you can avoid the ''dir_index'' and ''large_file'' issues encountered with DYNAMIC_REV (revision 1).

Here is an example of how you can create, format and check an EXT2 filesystem using the Linux native tools:

Code:
 # mkfs -t ext2 -r 0 /dev/hda3
 # fsck -C -t ext2 /dev/hda3
 # tune2fs -c 20 -i 6m -L Share /dev/hda3
 # fsck -C -t ext2 /dev/hda3
 # tune2fs -l /dev/hda3
If you want or have a dual boot system, I suggest using GParted Live to prepare the partitions with EXT2-rev0, then install Linux, but without formatting the partitions.

This will ensure 100% compatibility with Linux.
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