bionnaki
September 26th, 2009, 10:46 PM
I have a ubuntu desktop and a powerbook g4 (ppc) running osx. I would like to be able to share an external harddrive between both systems. At the moment, the harddrive is formatted as ext3 and is not able to be read by osx. I am considering reformatting the external to a filesystem that can be read by both.
the obvious preferred format would be fat32 but I have plenty of larger files on the harddrive (8 GB +) and, if I am not mistaken, fat32 has a file size limit.
I know ntfs is compatible with both ext3 (on my ubuntu box) and osx's filesystem, but I'm not sure if that's the best choice.
what are my other options? I would prefer to simply not have to reformat my harddrive and somehow enable osx to read/write to ext3, but I am not sure how to do this -- anyone know?
thanks
the obvious preferred format would be fat32 but I have plenty of larger files on the harddrive (8 GB +) and, if I am not mistaken, fat32 has a file size limit.
I know ntfs is compatible with both ext3 (on my ubuntu box) and osx's filesystem, but I'm not sure if that's the best choice.
what are my other options? I would prefer to simply not have to reformat my harddrive and somehow enable osx to read/write to ext3, but I am not sure how to do this -- anyone know?
thanks