Chris Knadle wrote:
Can Macs read a FAT32 partition without any additional software?
Yep -- FAT32 partitions up to 137 GB, and NTFS read-only support.
A quick overview of the filesystem support in OS X:
http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/arch_fs.html
Thanks again! I wouldn't have even known where to start looking.
My 1 TB USB HD arrived (Fantom GD1000EU), and it's very quiet and
after 24 hours of continuous use ('mke2fs -ccj') it isn't even
warm. And Mandriva recognized it without any problems. So far, so
good. It just seems to take much longer than I expected to format
the darn thing.
Formatting a drive over USB takes far longer than normal. And ext3
requires pre-allocating all of the inodes during the format, which is
most of what makes formatting it slow in general.
'mke2fs' wasn't that bad IMO. It was the r/w testing of 'mke2fs -ccj'
that took forever. I tried it for a 400GB partition on the USB HD, and
after 24 hours it was still testing. I ended up just going with 'mke2fs
-cj' which took only several hours for all the ext3 partitions.
Adam
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