[ale] external hard drive

[Robert Coggins]

Do macs work with NTFS?  If not am I safe to assume there is a mac port
of FUSE?

Rob

On 01/27/2010 11:46 AM, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 09:55 -0600, Preston Boyington wrote:
>> Robert Coggins wrote:
>>> Speaking of drives, I just bought a 500 gig portable drive that I will
>>> be mostly using with linux and mac.  Sometimes I might connect it to a
>>> windows box.  What is the best file system to use so that the drive
>>> works between all three?  Right now it is vfat but I am limited to 4 gig
>>> files.  I would like to keep some virtuals on it...
>>>
>> <snipped>
>>
>> wouldn't this be a case for NTFS?  not a fan of it, but FUSE will allow
>> read and write on mac/linux with 3g-ntfs.
>>
>> i used to use Ext2 on Windows via a plugin, but patching my linux boxes
>> was always easier and more reliable.
>>
> 
> As a home user, this is exactly what I do (Ubuntu x64 9.10).  I just got
> a 1TB USB disk, plugged it in:  Linux sees it just fine as does Windows
> 7.  Not sure what I would do in a data center (USB drives are good for
> manual backus given the size and cost of them.) as I have not actually
> had to do that.
>