On Sunday, Oct 24, 2004, at 14:24 US/Central, Robert Citek wrote:
How can one partitions and format an external USB2 drive using either OS X or Linux so that the drive works with Linux or OS X?
After futzing around, I determined a few rules:
1) partition with linux and be sure to set the filesystem type with fdisk
2) use Win95 FAT16 or Win95 FAT32 file systems ("c" and "e" on fdisk). Other filesystems may work, but of the 5-6 I tried only those two worked.
3) do not partition with OS X. OS X provides only 3 types of filesystems, none of which can be read by linux.
Uh, never mind. For some reason Mac OS X will no longer mount the FAT32 partition. According to the OS X Disk Utility program, OS X does recognize the partition as Windows FAT32, it just refuses to mount it.
Anyone have any thoughts on how to share 160 GB between Linux and OS X?
Regards, - Robert
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