[NBLUG/talk] Filesystem recommendation for a large external drive

Jacob Appelbaum jake at nblug.org
Thu Nov 9 01:39:27 PST 2006


Andrew wrote:
> Barry Stump wrote on Wed, 8 Nov 2006 20:35:46 -0800:
> 
>> On 11/8/06, Andrew <argonaut at gmx.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Until then, it looks like you're stuck with FAT32. Why don't
>>> you try partitioning the drive into, say, four 125 GB
>>> partitions? You'll still be stuck with a 4 GB file size
>>> limit, but it might alleviate some of the other problems
>>> you're experiencing.
>>>

HFS+ seems to be perfectly well supported for read + write in 2.6 and
current OS X. As I remember there was a windows driver that someone
(apple?) was shipping at one point?

-
jacob



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