Re: compatible filesystems between Mac and Linux

On Mon, 2024-07-29 at 22:01 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > I went with EXFAT. I had tried various other filing systems in the past, but both sides have to support it well. Sometimes you'd find both sides could read something okay, but messed up when creating files in a way that required a disc rep

Re: compatible filesystems between Mac and Linux

On Wed, 2024-07-31 at 08:48 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > I've been retired for years, but worked in a group that replaced SGI > IRIX4 with macOS. We used EXFAT on external drives. We had > colleagues scattered around the globe, so there were often problems > with filenames using unicode, i

Re: compatible filesystems between Mac and Linux

Jeffrey Walton : > > One other thing... Apple also provides support for multiple-forks, > > which are like NTFS Alternate Data Streams. So be sure to avoid them > > on the Apple side. Also see . Barry: > I do not see this in macOS these days. It’s a hang ov

Re: compatible filesystems between Mac and Linux

> On 31 Jul 2024, at 13:08, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > One other thing... Apple also provides support for multiple-forks, > which are like NTFS Alternate Data Streams. So be sure to avoid them > on the Apple side. Also see . I do not see this in macOS th

Re: compatible filesystems between Mac and Linux

On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 3:05 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 1:32 AM Tim via users > wrote: > > > > If I wanted to use a USB hard drive between a Mac and Linux, what are > > the best choices of file systems that work well in both ways? > > > > Chiefly, I'm offloading edited v

Re: compatible filesystems between Mac and Linux

On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 9:32 AM Tim via users wrote: > Tim: > > > If I wanted to use a USB hard drive between a Mac and Linux, what are > > > the best choices of file systems that work well in both ways? > > > > > > Chiefly, I'm offloading edited video files from the Mac's drive that's > > > fill

Re: compatible filesystems between Mac and Linux

Linux has drivers for mac;s hfs filesystem. I have used those before with no difficulty. On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 15:01:49 +0930 Tim wrote: Hi, If I wanted to use a USB hard drive between a Mac and Linux, what are the best choices of file systems that work well in both ways? Chiefly, I'm offloa

Re: compatible filesystems between Mac and Linux

On Mon, 2024-07-29 at 11:00 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Also, be aware that some Apple filesystems allow hard links to > directories (to support Time Machine). May or may not be relevant. I don't use that. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC

Re: compatible filesystems between Mac and Linux

Tim: > > If I wanted to use a USB hard drive between a Mac and Linux, what are > > the best choices of file systems that work well in both ways? > > > > Chiefly, I'm offloading edited video files from the Mac's drive that's > > filling up, that I want to keep for posterity. But it would be nice t

Re: compatible filesystems between Mac and Linux

Tim: > > If I wanted to use a USB hard drive between a Mac and Linux, what are > > the best choices of file systems that work well in both ways? > > > > Chiefly, I'm offloading edited video files from the Mac's drive that's > > filling up, that I want to keep for posterity. But it would be nice t

Re: compatible filesystems between Mac and Linux

On Mon, 2024-07-29 at 03:05 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 1:32 AM Tim via users > wrote: > > > > If I wanted to use a USB hard drive between a Mac and Linux, what > > are > > the best choices of file systems that work well in both ways? > > > > Chiefly, I'm offloading ed

Re: compatible filesystems between Mac and Linux

On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 1:32 AM Tim via users wrote: > > If I wanted to use a USB hard drive between a Mac and Linux, what are > the best choices of file systems that work well in both ways? > > Chiefly, I'm offloading edited video files from the Mac's drive that's > filling up, that I want to kee

Re: compatible filesystems between Mac and Linux

On 7/28/24 10:31 PM, Tim via users wrote: If I wanted to use a USB hard drive between a Mac and Linux, what are the best choices of file systems that work well in both ways? Chiefly, I'm offloading edited video files from the Mac's drive that's filling up, that I want to keep for posterity. But

compatible filesystems between Mac and Linux

Hi, If I wanted to use a USB hard drive between a Mac and Linux, what are the best choices of file systems that work well in both ways? Chiefly, I'm offloading edited video files from the Mac's drive that's filling up, that I want to keep for posterity. But it would be nice to be able to read an