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Cross-platform file system
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Mar 15, 202629687 viewsConfidence Score1%
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I would like my external drives to be readable and writable from Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. FAT32 works, but the 4 GB file size limit is a showstopper these days. Are there any alternatives?
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As Breakthrough said, use NTFS. In both Mac OS and Linux, you can use NTFS-3G to enable read/write to an NTFS partition. On OS X, NTFS-3G can also be installed through Homebrew for free with . You also need Fuse for OS X, but that's it. These projects are free, open-source and mature. I've used this setup on a Mac and I've had no problems accessing data from an NTFS partition.
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