I was leaning towards NTFS. Thank you.

On 2 July 2015 at 19:01, Jer <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 15-07-02 06:56 PM, Denis-André Desjardins. wrote:
>
>> I'm getting a new external hard-drive. I have one that's been formatted
>> in ext4, this results in that it can't be read by Macs or M$ machines. So
>> then, I'd like to format the new drive so that it CAN be read by other
>> platforms. Suggestions or recommendations please.
>>
>>  FAT32 can be read in all OSes, but has size limits and generally is
> ancient. NTFS and exFAT are the only other choices. I personally use NTFS
> when I have to have cross-platform plug-and-play (although I hate to). I am
> not sure of exFAT implementation on Mac or Linux, although I know it can be
> used on both, it may require a driver installation.
>
> Jeremy
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