On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:40 PM, VY <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
There is a ext2/3 driver/software for Windows, not sure if it's something you could mount under Mac OSX but it's an option that might work well if it's supported. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
