Hi,
One of my clients has a mixed Linux/Mac OS/Windows environment in his office. He just purchased a 4 TB external hard disk, which he intends to use on his various workstations.
Up until recently, I've been using plain old MBR/FAT for hard disks in mixed environments. Fire up fdisk, make one big 0b type partition, and then format it using mkdosfs.
Unfortunately, there's a 2 TB limit to that.
Of course, I could still use a GPT partition, but then I'd still have to format it using a "common denominator" filesystem, e. g. FAT... which is also limited to 2 TB as far as I know.
So what now? Use Windows 10 to format the disk using NTFS? This, Windows and Linux could use it, and I'd have to check if Mac OS can manage NTFS file systems. A few years ago, it didn't.
Any suggestions?
Niki
On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 05:19:44PM +0100, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
Hi,
One of my clients has a mixed Linux/Mac OS/Windows environment in his office. He just purchased a 4 TB external hard disk, which he intends to use on his various workstations.
Up until recently, I've been using plain old MBR/FAT for hard disks in mixed environments. Fire up fdisk, make one big 0b type partition, and then format it using mkdosfs.
Unfortunately, there's a 2 TB limit to that.
Of course, I could still use a GPT partition, but then I'd still have to format it using a "common denominator" filesystem, e. g. FAT... which is also limited to 2 TB as far as I know.
So what now? Use Windows 10 to format the disk using NTFS? This, Windows and Linux could use it, and I'd have to check if Mac OS can manage NTFS file systems. A few years ago, it didn't.
Any suggestions?
Maybe UDF?
What about exfat ?
2019年11月30日(土) 18:10 Fred Smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us:
On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 05:19:44PM +0100, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
Hi,
One of my clients has a mixed Linux/Mac OS/Windows environment in his
office.
He just purchased a 4 TB external hard disk, which he intends to use on
his
various workstations.
Up until recently, I've been using plain old MBR/FAT for hard disks in
mixed
environments. Fire up fdisk, make one big 0b type partition, and then
format it
using mkdosfs.
Unfortunately, there's a 2 TB limit to that.
Of course, I could still use a GPT partition, but then I'd still have to
format
it using a "common denominator" filesystem, e. g. FAT... which is also
limited
to 2 TB as far as I know.
So what now? Use Windows 10 to format the disk using NTFS? This, Windows
and
Linux could use it, and I'd have to check if Mac OS can manage NTFS file systems. A few years ago, it didn't.
Any suggestions?
Maybe UDF?
--
Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community.--Roger Ebert, December, 1996
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I strongly dislike moving removable disks between computers, especially with differing operating systems.
I would instead recommend getting/building a NAS aka file server and using the network to share files, or make backups, or whatever.
On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 11:38 AM Pierre Emerald pierre.emerald@gmail.com wrote:
What about exfat ?
2019年11月30日(土) 18:10 Fred Smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us:
On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 05:19:44PM +0100, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
Hi,
One of my clients has a mixed Linux/Mac OS/Windows environment in his
office.
He just purchased a 4 TB external hard disk, which he intends to use on
his
various workstations.
Up until recently, I've been using plain old MBR/FAT for hard disks in
mixed
environments. Fire up fdisk, make one big 0b type partition, and then
format it
using mkdosfs.
Unfortunately, there's a 2 TB limit to that.
Of course, I could still use a GPT partition, but then I'd still have
to
format
it using a "common denominator" filesystem, e. g. FAT... which is also
limited
to 2 TB as far as I know.
So what now? Use Windows 10 to format the disk using NTFS? This,
Windows
and
Linux could use it, and I'd have to check if Mac OS can manage NTFS
file
systems. A few years ago, it didn't.
Any suggestions?
Maybe UDF?
--
Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community.--Roger Ebert, December, 1996
----------------------------- The Boulder Pledge
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 30/11/19 21:50, John Pierce wrote:
I strongly dislike moving removable disks between computers, especially with differing operating systems.
I would instead recommend getting/building a NAS aka file server and using the network to share files, or make backups, or whatever.
On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 11:38 AM Pierre Emerald pierre.emerald@gmail.com wrote:
+1
Le 30/11/2019 à 21:50, John Pierce a écrit :
I strongly dislike moving removable disks between computers, especially with differing operating systems.
I would instead recommend getting/building a NAS aka file server and using the network to share files, or make backups, or whatever.
Hell is paved with good intentions (french saying).
We already have OwnCloud running perfectly here.
Except the machines are on different networks, and we don't want to upload a few terabytes of archives over a crappy internet connection. :o)
Cheers,
Niki
On Sun, Dec 1, 2019 at 7:09 AM Nicolas Kovacs info@microlinux.fr wrote:
Le 30/11/2019 à 21:50, John Pierce a écrit :
I strongly dislike moving removable disks between computers, especially with differing operating systems.
I would instead recommend getting/building a NAS aka file server and
using
the network to share files, or make backups, or whatever.
Hell is paved with good intentions (french saying).
We already have OwnCloud running perfectly here.
Except the machines are on different networks, and we don't want to upload a few terabytes of archives over a crappy internet connection. :o)
is there at least one machine on each LAN thats running the same OS ? I'd use that for the removable disk so its not moving between differing OS's.
I second that. exFAT is the way to go. Support is built in for the Mac and Windows and even Linux Mint. Support is easily installed for CentOS and Ubuntu. Looks like there was some compatability issues if the exFAT drive was formatted on a Mac. So be sure to format the drive on Windows or Linux. The maximum file size is 16 exabytes and 512 TB is the maximum recommended disk drive size. We use it at work to transfer large files between Windows, Mac and Linux using external drives. Ed
On Saturday, November 30, 2019, 2:38:33 PM EST, Pierre Emerald pierre.emerald@gmail.com wrote:
What about exfat ?
2019年11月30日(土) 18:10 Fred Smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us:
On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 05:19:44PM +0100, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
Hi,
One of my clients has a mixed Linux/Mac OS/Windows environment in his
office.
He just purchased a 4 TB external hard disk, which he intends to use on
his
various workstations.
Up until recently, I've been using plain old MBR/FAT for hard disks in
mixed
environments. Fire up fdisk, make one big 0b type partition, and then
format it
using mkdosfs.
Unfortunately, there's a 2 TB limit to that.
Of course, I could still use a GPT partition, but then I'd still have to
format
it using a "common denominator" filesystem, e. g. FAT... which is also
limited
to 2 TB as far as I know.
So what now? Use Windows 10 to format the disk using NTFS? This, Windows
and
Linux could use it, and I'd have to check if Mac OS can manage NTFS file systems. A few years ago, it didn't.
Any suggestions?
Maybe UDF?
--
Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community. --Roger Ebert, December, 1996
----------------------------- The Boulder Pledge
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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