[Gllug] Common UNIX filesystem for OS X & Linux

[John Edwards]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 12:59:54PM +0100, gvim wrote:
> I'm thinking of splitting my Macbook Pro's 500GB drive into 3 partitions:
> 
> - OS X Snow Leopard
> - Linux (Fedora or Ubuntu)
> - Common data partition
> 
> The obvious choice for the data partition would be FAT32 but I have an inate distaste for all things Microsoft and would prefer to have the data partition formatted with some kind of UNIX filesystem with read/write access from both OS X and Linux. From what I've read so far the closest thing is HFS+ without journaling as Linux doesn't yet support writes to HFS+ Journaled. However, I hear HFS+ without journaling isn't a great idea.

I think the hfsprogs package does now support write access:
	http://raamdev.com/mounting-hfs-with-write-access-in-debian


> Any other options I haven't considered? The MacFuse ext2/3 option didn't seem to be reliable last time I tried it.

There is the old UFS (Unix File System), but I think there is a file
size limit of 4GB on Mac OS X which might be a pain if you want to
store large file such as DVD images.


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