Thanks, I will check out these suggestions. Looks like there are more options than I initially thought.
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Tony Rick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Daniel Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:50 PM, VY <[email protected]> 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. > > > > I've been thinking that the solution to this type of problem is to > > instead of getting a USB drive get a small NAS server. They handle > > just about every network file sharing protocol. FTP, HTTP, NFS, > > SAMBA, and whatever it is that Mac OS uses plus block sharing > > protocols like iSCSI, and ATAoE. I don't know how easy it is to use > > one outside of a lan though. It seems like a crossover cable would > > work, but assigning a network address might be tricky. > > > Did you ever look at MacFUSE or NTFS-3G (includes McFUSE) for NTFS on Mac? > > http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ > > http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/2009/04/ntfs-3g-200944.html > > - tony > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
