Thanks I tried exFat this afternoon and so far it works well. I also need to use the same drive on a Rasp. Pi which I haven't tested it yet. I assume since my Ubuntu works, it should also be ok on a Pi.
-v On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 2:36 PM King Beowulf <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
