[PLUG] NTFS on a USB flash drive?

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Sun Nov 27 08:52:39 UTC 2011


On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:45:17 -0800
Benjamin Kerensa <bkerensa at ubuntu.com> dijo:

>Mac OSX can read NTFS but not write to it... There is a app called
>MacFuse that makes writing to NTFS possible.
>If you don't have USB 3.0 ports then your not going to benefit from the
>speed of a USB 3.0 device and if you choose you
>could format the thumbdrive and use another FS. I have USB 3.0 drives
>that have USB 3.0 support and use Ext4.

I don't own any Macs, but I frequently need to work with people who do.
If their Mac can't read my flash drive that's a serious problem. Can
Macs read/write ext3 or ext4 filesystems? I think I should just
reformat it FAT32 and be done with it.



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