thanks for all responses....It looks like NTFS is not supported in MacOS X. Will try Linux this weekend.
Ok, sticking with FAT and file size under 4GB for now.... On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:13 PM, m0gely <[email protected]> wrote: > VY wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have a 400 GB USB portable drive that I need to do READ/WRITE between > > Linux, Win XP and MacOS X. > > It is currently in FAT which has a 4GB file size limit. Is NTFS the > right > > format to go? I > > seem to recall Linux can do full read/write to NTFS. Just want to see if > > anyone else has similar experience > > to share. > > Ubuntu on my machine since 7.04 has had r/w access to my NTFS volumes. I > would go NTFS. If you have a spare thumb drive around and you don't want > to format your 400GB you could test it with that. > > -- > m0gely > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
