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Newbie ?: Do I reformat my FAT32 External HD to Mac OS Extended (Journalized)
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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1179994"><p>"Best" is a subjective term, but if you're going to use that drive with a Mac, it just makes sense to format it for the Mac. Also, FAT32 was a perfectly good filesystem back in the day, but it's run into modern progress and can't handle files larger than 4GB, which as anyone with a video camera will tell you is pretty easy to create these days.</p><p></p><p>So yes, I'd recommend you format the drive for Mac. The journaling bit is optional; it's more useful on boot drives than storage drives, but I don't think it makes enough of a difference to actually care about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1179994"] "Best" is a subjective term, but if you're going to use that drive with a Mac, it just makes sense to format it for the Mac. Also, FAT32 was a perfectly good filesystem back in the day, but it's run into modern progress and can't handle files larger than 4GB, which as anyone with a video camera will tell you is pretty easy to create these days. So yes, I'd recommend you format the drive for Mac. The journaling bit is optional; it's more useful on boot drives than storage drives, but I don't think it makes enough of a difference to actually care about. [/QUOTE]
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