Jarn Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Which one of these works better? Because I want to have a data partition to have data readable by both OSX and Windows XP. I know that there are some very stable ext2 drivers for Windows, but what about OSX? I saw that both drivers were listed when installing iATKOS but I would like to know if one is better than the other. If they're the same I'll go with ext2 because I'm going to (eventually) install Linux on this computer and I'veh eard sketchy things about their ntfs drivers... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141876-what-does-osx-have-better-support-for-ext2-or-ntfs/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurora Posted December 20, 2008 Share Posted December 20, 2008 There's nothing terribly sketchy about the current ntfs-3g driver in Mac OS X (via MacFUSE) or in the major Linux distributions, that is, it's been reading and writing without issues for a while now. If your plan is to eventually install Linux, set aside some space on your drive(s) for it, but considering there is stable read/write support for NTFS, a "go-between" drive isn't really necessary anymore. Note, I don't really know what drivers iATKOS uses for NTFS support, I've only used the combo I suggested above. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141876-what-does-osx-have-better-support-for-ext2-or-ntfs/#findComment-1006619 Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpao Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 for both (ext3 and NTFS) there are commercial drivers from paragon. for NTFS there is free MC FUSE + NTFS-3G for ext2 (but think not ext3) there is free ext2fsx Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141876-what-does-osx-have-better-support-for-ext2-or-ntfs/#findComment-1016856 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slice Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 FAT32 is Read/Write in any OS without any additional drivers. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141876-what-does-osx-have-better-support-for-ext2-or-ntfs/#findComment-1017132 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meowpard Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 read about the limitations of FAT32 "The maximum possible size for a file on a FAT32 volume is 4GiB minus 1 byte (232−1 bytes). Video applications, large databases, and some other software easily exceed this limit. Larger files require another formatting type such as HFS+ or NTFS. Until mid-2006, those who run dual boot systems or who move external data drives between computers with different operating systems had little choice but to stick with FAT32. Since then, full support for NTFS has become available in Linux and many other operating systems, by installing the FUSE library (...)" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141876-what-does-osx-have-better-support-for-ext2-or-ntfs/#findComment-1017198 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slice Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 read about the limitations of FAT32 "The maximum possible size for a file on a FAT32 volume is 4GiB minus 1 byte (232−1 bytes). Video applications, large databases, and some other software easily exceed this limit. Larger files require another formatting type such as HFS+ or NTFS. Until mid-2006, those who run dual boot systems or who move external data drives between computers with different operating systems had little choice but to stick with FAT32. Since then, full support for NTFS has become available in Linux and many other operating systems, by installing the FUSE library (...)" Yes, it is not full solution. But NTFS support is not ultimate... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141876-what-does-osx-have-better-support-for-ext2-or-ntfs/#findComment-1017563 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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