Hi,
scotty_j wrote:
> I have a need to access an external hard drive under the following
> parameters:
>
> -- My current MacBook Pro with OS X
> -- My same MacBook Pro when using Windows XP via a Bootcamp Partition
> -- I would like to be able to read/write under both OS functions.
>
> I was at the Apple Store yesterday meeting with the Genius Bar and was
> put touch with MacFuse. My questions are:
>
> -- How should I format my bootcamp partition for windows?
> -- How should I format the External Drive?
>
> Pleas help me understand this process. I'm not an idiot....just
> trying to figure it out. :-)
>
To answer your questions:
- Your boot camp partition can be formatted as FAT32 or NTFS.
- If you choose FAT32, the partition will be natively writable by
Mac OS X, but you can't store files that are larger than 4 GB (GiB really).
- If you choose NTFS, you get a much more capable file system, which
is much more secure in Windows mode, but Mac OS X can only read from
NTFS natively. You need NTFS-3G to have it appear as a read/write file
system.
- The same arguments can be used for the external drive, although
security considerations are less valid for this type of media.
MacFUSE is the file system API that NTFS-3G uses, and as a user you
don't need to worry about it, you just need to install NTFS-3G.
Anyone that claims that "MacFUSE makes NTFS drives writable" is
confused. It is really NTFS-3G that does that part, and MacFUSE is the
library/kernel component used by NTFS-3G and other filesystems based on
the FUSE or MacFUSE API:s to communicate with the operating system.
You can download NTFS-3G here:
http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com
- Erik
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