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 to > > be able to read and write files on Linux too (sneakernet).
Jeffrey Walton: > I believe the actual filesystem should be Ok. Linux supports lesser > known filesystem like APFS and HFS(+). Also see > <https://support.apple.com/guide/disk-utility/file-system-formats-dsku19ed921c/mac>. I remember trying to read some Apple filesystems on Linux in the past, and having some grief about read/write compatibility. Though so long ago I don't recall what problems, and which file system. > But be careful of character sets used for filenames. Apple uses > UTF-8-Mac charset for filenames, and the gunlib folks don't approve of > Apple's modifications. So there's a potential for filename problems. > Also see <https://github.com/fumiyas/libiconv-utf8mac>. > For my own stuff, I've always stuck to bog simple characters. All lower-case, ASCII letter range, only hyphens and stops as punctuation. One thing that did come to grief was trying to deal with Final Cut Pro's bundle files. FCP is a video editor, and all your media (video, audio, stills, etc) that you import for a particular job goes into a psuedo archive. Depending on how you access it outside of the program, it's either yourprojectname.fcpbundle and behaves like one big file, that you can easily move around and backup and restore. Or, that behaves like the name of a directory, and all your files are inside it like a normal directory. Or you move the big file from one drive to another, and it turns from being one big file to being a directory of files. I never could find a consistent behaviour for it doing that. Try and move that around, and things can go haywire. Yes, I do know that the FCP program needs to be not running when doing that kind of thing. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
