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<blockquote data-quote="mac57" data-source="post: 328312" data-attributes="member: 17052"><p>There are two other options you may wish to consider:</p><p></p><p>1/ Format the drive as HFS+ (the Mac standard format) and then buy MacDrive, a piece of Windows shareware that allows Windows to seamlessly support HFS+. This gives you the best of both worlds, albiet at a small fee.</p><p></p><p>2/ Format the drive in a format that both share. FAT32 is the easiest choice, but it does not support files larger than 4GB *and* it does not support the Mac/unix/Linux concept of file ownership and permissions. A common file system to both is Linux's stalwart ext2, which fully supports file ownership and permissions. Neither Windows nor Mac OS X supports ext2 "out of the box", but freeware support is available for both.</p><p></p><p>For Windows, see: <a href="http://www.fs-driver.org" target="_blank">http://www.fs-driver.org</a></p><p></p><p>For Mac, see: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx</a></p><p></p><p>I have used the Windows support and can vouch for it. I have not yet used the Mac support, but have read good things about it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mac57, post: 328312, member: 17052"] There are two other options you may wish to consider: 1/ Format the drive as HFS+ (the Mac standard format) and then buy MacDrive, a piece of Windows shareware that allows Windows to seamlessly support HFS+. This gives you the best of both worlds, albiet at a small fee. 2/ Format the drive in a format that both share. FAT32 is the easiest choice, but it does not support files larger than 4GB *and* it does not support the Mac/unix/Linux concept of file ownership and permissions. A common file system to both is Linux's stalwart ext2, which fully supports file ownership and permissions. Neither Windows nor Mac OS X supports ext2 "out of the box", but freeware support is available for both. For Windows, see: [url]http://www.fs-driver.org[/url] For Mac, see: [url]http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx[/url] I have used the Windows support and can vouch for it. I have not yet used the Mac support, but have read good things about it. [/QUOTE]
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