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 at gmail.com> wrote:
What about exfat ?
2019年11月30日(土) 18:10 Fred Smith <fredex at 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?
>
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