jwh335 Posted January 4, 2010 Share Posted January 4, 2010 Hi, all. I've just bought a MacBook Pro and I'm currently waiting on it to arrive. Very excited However, before it gets here, I would like to sort out a question I have. My current main computer is running Linux (ext3) and my media center is Windows 7 (ntfs). I have a one TB external HDD that I store everything on. I've formatted it in ntfs so that I can read/write from both Linux and Windows. I think this is about to become a problem, with the Mac. I've looked around and I don't know what I need to format the disk in. I REALLY don't want to format it as fat32 (I imagine fat32 won't mesh well with a TB). It doesn't seem like I have a lot of options, though. I believe I read that I can use ntfs-3g, but I've heard it's slow. So, I'd like to find out my other options before I go down that path. In a perfect world, I'd have read/write on all three systems. I'm not expecting that to happen, so I would settle with read/write to my Linux system. Is there any way to read/write ext3 from OS X? Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/205628-external-hdd-format/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattiL Posted January 4, 2010 Share Posted January 4, 2010 Perhaps a network connected drive (NAS) can be useful? I have a Maxtor which runs a Linux kernel, file system EXT3. (or was it ReiserFS... ?) No problems accessing the drive from Windows or Kubuntu Linux (using SAMBA), will try my MBP soon too. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/205628-external-hdd-format/#findComment-1376427 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattiL Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 Also works well from my MBP, in fact it works great. And really easy to connect to. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/205628-external-hdd-format/#findComment-1377080 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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