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Outdated Article

For anyone wondering why I'm adding this to the outdated category, even though it's relatively complete, if you're going to include ext2 then the most recent version is ext3, in addition, it includes nothing about ZFS, UFS, or other file systems that Mac OS X supports. Also (as soon as I figure out how), I'm going to rename this article "File Systems" because there is no mention of actual physical drives either Hard Disk Drives or Solid State Drives, only the types of File Systems, nor would they belong here either because the potential article once it's been properly updated would be too long to accommodate those. Also, if someone (even more technically inclined than I currently am and good with words) could give a brief description of what a file system actually is, that would be great and many thanks if you do. --Sebastianlewis 21:24, 30 May 2008 (EDT)

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Older Discussions

Noted that these were older discussions to separate them from my Outdated articles one above because there was no form of organization here. --Sebastianlewis 21:25, 30 May 2008 (EDT)

A good compromise should be using Linux ext2 (aka "ext3 non-journaled") filesystem. It allows for larger file size and should be read/writeable by both OSes as there are drivers for this filesystem available for both of them (free):


Windows NT / 2000 / XP http://www.fs-driver.org

Mac OS X 10.4 (Universal Binary) http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ext2fsx/Ext2FS_1.4d3.dmg?download


Haven't tried this solution myself, so be careful (backup your data) especially when considering that macos driver 1.4d3 is still a development build. Report on your success please.


Also, useful notes here:

http://www.bmannconsulting.com/macosx/how-to/ext2-for-mac

http://www.bmannconsulting.com/macosx/how-to/ext2-for-mac/ext2fsx-readme - try to look for an updated readme file in the downloaded .dmg because this one above is outdated (still states Tiger incompatibility)


Question: Anyone knows of an HFS+ read/write utility (like TransMac or MacDisk) which works under Windows without admin rights / installation? Would be useful for external USB drives on win machines (no need for ext2).

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