cbreaker Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 (edited) Greetings. Sometimes you need to move data around from MacOS to a PC and back. Video, audio, whatever. It needs to be done. For large amounts of data, network might not be the answer. Connecting a drive to the machine with USB or FireWire might be faster. So, what the hell Filesystem can I use? I mean, really - FAT32 works but not for large files like Video (4GB limit.) HFS+ requires MacDrive to be installed on the Windows boxes and is not free. Is there a filesystem other then FAT32 that I can use with both MacOS and Windows, and maybe Linux? I can't get the EXT2 kext for MacOS working, so that's out. Anyone? Anyone at all? Edited December 13, 2006 by cbreaker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35688-multi-platform-file-system/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
asap18 Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 im totally guessing here but maybe UFS-unix file system. I know it works for mac os x and linux and think there is something for windows to use it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35688-multi-platform-file-system/#findComment-253965 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OMX-Knuckles Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 Doesn't Mac OS support NTFS? I'm able to view and edit my NTFS Windows partition while running 10.4.6... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35688-multi-platform-file-system/#findComment-256061 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 OSX supports reading NTFS but not writing to NTFS Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35688-multi-platform-file-system/#findComment-256068 Share on other sites More sharing options...
trav1085 Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 Hmm. Considering that Macs are already running Windows, Linux, and, well, Mac OS X I think there might be a universal filesystem in the future. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35688-multi-platform-file-system/#findComment-256078 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lostgame Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 OSX supports reading NTFS but not writing to NTFS I'm positive there was a way to get that working. There was some software, I read it in MacAddict (great Magazine, by the by). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35688-multi-platform-file-system/#findComment-256111 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 Hmm. Considering that Macs are already running Windows, Linux, and, well, Mac OS X I think there might be a universal filesystem in the future. ZFS, anyone? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35688-multi-platform-file-system/#findComment-256119 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBK.Xscape Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 yea he Zettabyte file system is gonna dominate once it becomes stable on leo. like 16 exabtyes of storge, lol Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35688-multi-platform-file-system/#findComment-256137 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpeedfreaK Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 Doesn't Mac OS support NTFS? I'm able to view and edit my NTFS Windows partition while running 10.4.6... How do you do that? that's impossible! you can't write to ntfs, i searched houres on the web to find some software to do that, but it's simply impossible. ps: i heard it can be done over network, but how does that works? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35688-multi-platform-file-system/#findComment-256284 Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSkywalker Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 There's a hint in here about how to write to ntfs partition. Note that it's not safe. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35688-multi-platform-file-system/#findComment-256332 Share on other sites More sharing options...
exadeath Posted December 24, 2006 Share Posted December 24, 2006 I have a 2.5" usb enclosure that I've been using for transferring large files between linux and XP. I used ext2 as the filesystem since NTFS write isn't available on all the linux machines I'm using. I still don't understand the non-existent support in 10.4 for ext2, its neither a new FS nor a particularly complex one. But I did find a workaround to get access to the usb drive in OSX. In the newest parallels build 3094 the USB support finally works and is the faster 2.0 - So I hooked the USB drive up to a Ubuntu guest and shared the drive back to OSX using samba. Its not pretty, automatic, or all that speedy but it gets the job done. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35688-multi-platform-file-system/#findComment-261046 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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