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What format to give an external Hard Drive?
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<blockquote data-quote="mac57" data-source="post: 334228" data-attributes="member: 17052"><p>If you are planning to share an HFS+ volume with Windows, you will need a commercial package like MacDrive (<a href="http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive6/" target="_blank">http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive6/</a>) to access it from Windows. </p><p></p><p>As an alternate, you can format the drive using ext2, the workhorse Linux file format. It is supported by both Mac and Windows. The Mac support is at:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx</a></p><p></p><p>The Windows support is available at:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.fs-driver.org/" target="_blank">http://www.fs-driver.org/</a></p><p></p><p>ext2 is a good idea for a Mac because it fully supports the concept of file ownership and permisssions just like HFS+. So this makes it superior to FAT32. ext2 also has the benefit of being open source freeware.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mac57, post: 334228, member: 17052"] If you are planning to share an HFS+ volume with Windows, you will need a commercial package like MacDrive ([url]http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive6/[/url]) to access it from Windows. As an alternate, you can format the drive using ext2, the workhorse Linux file format. It is supported by both Mac and Windows. The Mac support is at: [url]http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx[/url] The Windows support is available at: [url]http://www.fs-driver.org/[/url] ext2 is a good idea for a Mac because it fully supports the concept of file ownership and permisssions just like HFS+. So this makes it superior to FAT32. ext2 also has the benefit of being open source freeware. [/QUOTE]
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