On 5/5/19 1:57 PM, VY wrote: > Dear All > > I have a USB external drive that I will need to have it work with Linux and > MacOS frequently. > I am trying to decide what format I should use to format it. > > msdos is the easy option, both OS can support it just fine. > However, I may have files with size that could be larger than 4GB. > I read about exFat which won't have that 4GB file size limit but I am not > sure how well > that is being supported. > > Does anyone have suggestions how to format this drive so I can use it > between Linux and MacOS? > > thanks > > -v
exFAT is arguably the choice. If it isn't installed by default in your linux distro, it will be in the repo. MacOS has support since 10.6 (?). If you just need Linux <-> MacOS, Linux can read/write HPFS+ file system natively. -Ed
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