Filesystem to use for external hard drive to be used with Mac, Linux and Windows machines
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Possible Duplicate: Cross-platform file system I have a rather large USB drive that I'd like to be able to use across the different machines I own. I'm having a hard time figuring out what would be the best file system to use on it to be able to read/write things from the 3 OSs I'm in contact with:…
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The best choice might be Universal Disk Format. Windows XP, Mac OS, and Linux all support UDF reading and writing. UDF has good Unicode support and does not have the 4gb maximum size limit of FAT32. I believe that NTFS is a bad choice because you ca…
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