gagejd Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Hi there, dual booting linux and Snow Leopard.. I am re-formatting my media partition (which I keep separate from the linux and osx files so as to keep them safe if I want to reinstall the operating system or mess something up), and was wondering as to the best filesystem I should pick? I would do ext4, but I understand that osx cannot read/write to it natively or in a stable fashion. Any suggestions? Thanks! Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/244866-best-filesystem-for-media-partition/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmas Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 You have to format it to HFS (not Journaled).. and then you can Read it from your Linux .. You have to write in Terminal (sudo nautilus). This is because linux cannot read/write HFS+ (Journaled).. Good luck.. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/244866-best-filesystem-for-media-partition/#findComment-1628463 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gagejd Posted January 24, 2011 Author Share Posted January 24, 2011 Thanks.. I'm sure I can install whatever drivers I need for linux, I'm just needing something that can r/w from mac.. looks like I might try out HFS.. thanks! Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/244866-best-filesystem-for-media-partition/#findComment-1628522 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dothacker Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 NTFS (Supports files bigger than 4gb). Just make sure you have NTFS-3G installed on your mac. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/244866-best-filesystem-for-media-partition/#findComment-1628574 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gagejd Posted January 25, 2011 Author Share Posted January 25, 2011 Figured I might as well do something that windows 7 can read/write as well... since that will likely be installed on the side.. Ntfs sounds like the best one so far, since I'll be using linux 90% of the time and I've never had a problem with files written to ntfs. The reason is that I seem to get that hfs+ has some instability issues with reading/writing from linux? Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/244866-best-filesystem-for-media-partition/#findComment-1628876 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendall Bennett Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 NTFS would be a good choice as you can get solid support for it now in Linux, and with the Mac drivers it works nicely on the Mac also. Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/244866-best-filesystem-for-media-partition/#findComment-1628910 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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