On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Brian K. White <brian@aljex.com> wrote:
On 2/7/2012 5:49 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
I needed to have a external drive that I could easily move from Win7, Mac OS 10.7, and openSUSE.
I preferred it not to have the 2GB limit that vfat has.
I know ExFAT is supported on the Mac and on Win7, so I went with it.
To my surprise, both the Mac and Win7 have no issue, but at least a vanilla opensuse 12.1 won't mount it!
Is there something I can install, or hax linux fallen behind in this area?
Thanks Greg
Depending on which way you need to read vs write, and depending on if you are willing to install odd stuff on the mac...
linux can read HFS+ by default, osx's default fs.
But windows can't.
osx can read and write ext2/3 with a free 3rd party add-on.
osx can read/write ext4 with a pay add-on.
osx can read NTFS by default, can write via both pay and free options.
None of those are good. I truly need to not install stuff on the mac.
linux can at least read NTFS by default, can write if you install ntfs-3g which is even installed by default already in many cases.
At least on this Mac, it wasn't. Lion 10.7
So I'd say install ntfs-3g on both and format the stick ntfs.
That gets you painless windows compatibility too just as a bonus. Linux it's both free and effortless to install ntfs-3g, just select it in yast and done.
Yes, I use ntfs-3g all the time with opensuse. Never a problem.
Leaving onky you have to install something on osx, and there you have your choice of free and pay options. free, but more work and maybe no lion compatibility, or pay $20-$40 and have a painless commercial install with lion compatibility for at least one of them.
Nicely summarized here:
Or, use an archive splitter / multi-volume archive format like rar to write all your stuff into multiple 2G files in a single multi-volume archive on the regular fat32 filesystem that both systems can read and write with no special software other than rar.
Not great either because I wanted just "cp -a /Users /MyDrive/MyFolder". If there are any large files, that will fail with fat32.
-- bkw
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