[CentOS] Which file system to use for a USB backup

Sun Mar 13 09:46:57 UTC 2011
Earl Ramirez <earlaramirez at gmail.com>

For Mac he can use fuse for mac or NTFS-3G for Mac, that will give you the
ability to write to ntfs drives on a Mac.

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/23729/macfuse

I use NTFS-3G for Mac and it works fine.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-for-macosx/

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.com>wrote:

> --On Wednesday, March 09, 2011 2:56 PM -0800 Todd Cary
> <todd at aristesoftware.com> wrote:
>
> > I have some photographs on my Centos 4 server that I want to copy
> > to a USB drive.  However, I want to be able to access the files
> > from Windows or Mac OS's.  Where should I look for instructions
> > on how to mount and format the USB drive and is FAT32 the only
> > option?
>
> I don't know about Mac, but you could set up NTFS with Fuse on CentOS to
> allow you to format and mount it as an NTFS filesystem.
>
> You could also format as ext3 and install a filesystem driver on Windows to
> understand ext3.
>
> <http://www.fs-driver.org/>
>
> Since the Mac is BSD-based, it might even understand ext3. There's this
> project:
>
> <http://ext2fsx.sourceforge.net/>
>
> I haven't used these, as I haven't needed to export files to another OS
> this way.
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Kind Regards
Earl Ramirez
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