[lug] Cross-platform large external hard drive filesystem?

[Nate Duehr]

You talking about OSX or OS9 on the Mac?

Big difference there... (GRIN).

Nate

Tkil wrote:

> Not just a Linux question, but it is somewhat relevant.
> 
> I would like to have an external hard drive that I could move from
> platform to platform (Windows 98/ME/2k/XP, Linux, Mac).
> Interestingly, hardware connection is the easiest thing to figure out;
> both USB and FireWire are widely supported on those platforms.
> 
> My problem is: what filesystem do I use?  I thought I'd try FAT32,
> since I know that windows and linux both speak that.  But (1) I wasn't
> sure if Mac speaks it, and (2) windows 2k refuses to make FAT32
> partitions larger than 32GB [although it looks like it will happily
> mount them].  Nothing but Linux understands ext[23].
> Hmm... is UDF read-write?  :)
> 
> So, I'm asking for suggestions.  I have a 120GB drive that I would
> like to use in this application; I could slice it into four partitions
> and do FAT32 on each, but that strikes me as nasty.
> 
> Ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> t.
> 
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