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Formats for an external HD.

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  • #2
    ricman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭ricman


    You could partition half the drive in fat32 ,pc format, mac can read fat 32.
    Partition the rest in mac format.
    See http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~pcarbo/macnexstar.html.
    iT CANNOT write to a fat32 hardrive.


  • #3
    redarmyblues
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 983 ✭✭✭redarmyblues


    Thanks ricman, I will it a go>


  • #4
    krinpit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 450 ✭✭krinpit


    Actually a Mac will read/write to a Fat32 drive just fine. Format the whole thing as FAT32


  • #5
    ricman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭ricman


    Sorry about that format it all, in fat32.


  • #6
    Bob_Harris
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,619 ✭✭✭Bob_Harris


    Both Linux and OSx can read and write to NTFS using ntfs-3g.

    You have a file size limit of 4GB on Fat32. That might or might not be important, but if you have any large ISOs or movies it will be a problem.


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  • #7
    redarmyblues
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 983 ✭✭✭redarmyblues


    How do I format the disc to use ntfs-3g. When I begin to read about it I see Linux and my eyes glaze over and I start to remember the torture of trying to install stuff on my linux EEpc.


  • #8
    ricman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭ricman


    YOU download ntfs-g and install it on the mac, see here,
    http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/2009/04/ntfs-3g-200944.html
    you need mac osx 10.4, or 10.5 .
    you install it like any mac program.no need to know unix or linux.


  • #9
    redarmyblues
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 983 ✭✭✭redarmyblues


    My version is 10.3


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