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file structure for external hard drive

  • 05-06-2011 11:24AM
    #1
    melekalikimaka
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    which is the best file system to use for a drive being shared by both osx and ubuntu, i would like to read/write both?


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  • #2
    Dun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,967 ✭✭✭Dun


    FAT32 would be supported by both natively, though obviously there are limitations to usage like the 4GB file size limit. Ubuntu supports NTFS, which doesn't have this limitation, and I think there's a tweak out there to allow writing to ntfs on osx, but I don't use a mac, so I'm afraid I'm not 100% sure.

    I do believe you can get third party support for writing to HFS+ on Ubuntu, but I'm not sure about osx writing to native linux file systems.


  • #3
    melekalikimaka
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    fat 32 is no use to me sadly... hfs+ seems to be the logical choice, will check out ubuntu support. cheers


  • #4
    Hal Emmerich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,078 ✭✭✭Hal Emmerich


    exfat?


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