On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 6:01 PM, John Andersen <jsamyth@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/7/2012 2:49 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
First point under Disadvantages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT#Disadvantages
Okay. What a pain.
Why not use NTFS? The Open Source drivers are pretty stable. But I use Paragon with perfect success. http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-linux-per/download.html
I own / control the linux and Windows boxes. The Mac is a clients and very much want to avoid touching it any more than I have to.
Or use a commercial driver for exFat: http://www.tuxera.com/news/tuxera-exfat-now-available-for-android-and-linux/
I see the 2 year old press release, but not a product I can actually buy for openSUSE (or anything else for that matter.) Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org