[ale] external hard drive

[Preston Boyington]

Robert Coggins wrote:
> Speaking of drives, I just bought a 500 gig portable drive that I will
> be mostly using with linux and mac.  Sometimes I might connect it to a
> windows box.  What is the best file system to use so that the drive
> works between all three?  Right now it is vfat but I am limited to 4 gig
> files.  I would like to keep some virtuals on it...
> 
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wouldn't this be a case for NTFS?  not a fan of it, but FUSE will allow
read and write on mac/linux with 3g-ntfs.

i used to use Ext2 on Windows via a plugin, but patching my linux boxes
was always easier and more reliable.

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