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Join Date: May 2004
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What file system would be best to format an external drive that will move from linux > mac os x that is readable by both and writeable by both easily?
oh yeah.. windows as well |
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
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Well, if you're running Panther, ext3 would be the best.
read/write driver for windows Support for Panther ONLY Otherwise it seems that FAT32 is your other choice, sadly. Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: near Bremen, Germany
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Um. HFS+? Much more efficient and modern than FAT32, and also than ext2: note that only Linux itself has full support for ext3, including Journaling, as that's right in the kernel. Windows and Mac OS X (through your linked drivers) only support ext2, which while fully backwards-/forwards-compatible just isn't the same.
HFS+, however, works natively on most Linux distros without third-party software. On Windows, there's commercial drivers for it that work fine, too. |
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