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linux external, read on mac

  • 06-01-2012 03:10PM
    #1
    melekalikimaka
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    have an external drive, media player, partitioned in ext3, all the movies and music are on this, I'm trying to copy them onto a new external as a back up, but want to make it mac compatable, since the files run into 10gb regulary, FAT isnt an option, so going for hfs, my mac cant read it so looking for the best way to transfer the files, ideally with out networking as I have tried this route and failed terribly, MacFuse seems like it MIGHT work, anyone tried this?


Comments

  • #2
    acous
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 486 ✭✭acous


    I used paragon extfs for something or other last year, don't remember running into any problems.


  • #3
    Colonel Panic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Colonel Panic


    I use MacFuse and NTFS-3G and it's decent. No experience with the EXT2/3 driver though.


  • #4
    ethernet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,519 ✭✭✭ethernet


    HFS (without journalling, i.e. not HFS+) is Linux-friendly - there's kernel support for reading from and writing to vanilla HFS. Otherwise read-only support for HFS+.


  • #5
    melekalikimaka
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    went the router route


  • #6
    acous
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 486 ✭✭acous


    Ah, so you hooked up the ext3 drive to your router and read the files off that from your mac? Clever :)


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