[PLUG] NTFS on a USB flash drive?

Russell Johnson russ at dimstar.net
Mon Nov 28 16:17:45 UTC 2011


On Nov 28, 2011, at 6:49 AM, Cummings, Roger wrote:

> 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.

Not natively. I've read that you can mount ext3/4 partitions as ext2 from the command line in os/x, but I have not tried this. 

Russell Johnson
russ at dimstar.net






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