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Originally Posted by Jimi 
You can choose to ignore it and skip past it. I guess I'm really in search for a new format for my partitions that are shared between Windows & Linux. I looked into FAT64/exFAT, but I can't find a lot of information about it and I don't think GParted supports it. Any other ideas? Why can't Microsoft support more open file systems?
In the meantime, I checked my OC. It was stable, but I did notice it was generating more heat than it was originally. I proceeded to get it stable again with a few different settings in order to lower temps. I doubt it was my OC, though. It makes more sense that NTFS-3G/FUSE is the problem.
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I don't think that there is a way to actually create exfat file systems in Linux yet, however you can mount/read/write to them using fuse-exfat. Write support is only a few months old, also.
I've actually been in the same boat as you lately (regarding choosing a middle ground FS for Linux and Windows). Here is my take.
I have a RAID0 array (3*500GB) that is divided as such:
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[[email protected] Shapes]$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 1498.7 GB, 1498675150848 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182203 cylinders, total 2927099904 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x13d4df08
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 208844 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 208845 738989 265072+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 738990 51954209 25607610 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 51954210 2927091194 1437568492+ 83 Linux
I was debating as to what filesystem to use after backing up and wiping my 5*500GB RAID5 array. I was tired of compromising performance by running a filesystem through fuse instead of something that is open and native to the kernel, so for now I went with ext4. I was also debating JFS, XFS, and Reiser, so I still may test those.
I am able to read the ext4 partition in Windows using ext2fs, then if I need to access a file (watching a movie for example) I just right click, save file, then it copies it to the Windows partition. I just delete it after I'm done.
I know this isn't ideal, but it allows me to keep everything separate and have the filesystems native to each OS.
I don't know why Windows doesn't have better file system support, especially considering how slow NTFS is. Exfat is a huge improvement, but I would still like to see ext support.
Also if you don't mind running 32-bit Windows you could use coLinux, a really awesome way to create a Linux environment that is basically an executable program. When they finally finish porting it to 64 bit I will use that in a heartbeat.
http://www.colinux.org/