Re: [Hampshire] USB hard drive problem.

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Author: Clive Woodfine
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] USB hard drive problem.
On 9 October 2010 17:29, Peter Collins <hlug@???> wrote:
>  On 09/10/2010 18:25, Clive Woodfine wrote:
>>
>> I have a a usb hdd attached to my computer. It is formatted with fat32
>> and gparted shows its size as 74.53 Gib with 35.59 Gib used. When I
>> try to copy a file of 11.5 GB it starts but then says I do not have
>> enough space! I have the file browser to show hidden files but it
>> still shows a lot of free space. Is there somewhere else deleted files
>> are hidden?
>>
>

Thanks for pointing that out Peter. Do you know what would be the best
file system to be able to use the USB hdd on both Windows 7 and linux?

Clive Woodfine