[NTLUG:Discuss] mounting drives from other os

[Chris Cox]

MontyS at videopost.com wrote:
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> FAT32 would probably work, but trying to get the clients to use FAT32 on a
> consistant basis would be difficult.  Heck, I can't remember if FAT32
> requires the 8.3 file naming syntax.  If this is the case, FAT32 wouldn't
> work because we would need more than 8 characters for filenames.  We could
> easily have over 10,000 frames. Just setting up the numbering sequence would
> take up 6 characters.  Our clients would never go for that :/

Sounds like FAT32 is your best bet.  It handles long filenames pretty well.
I know it's a pain.. but you know most external drives are pre-formatted
FAT32 and NOT NTFS... even today.  That's just going to have to be something
the client will have to remember if creating a new filesystem on the
external drive.