File system question.

[Shadowmoose]

I know most Windows systems are running on NTFS, so I was curious about what Mac and Linux normally run on by default. I have an external hard drive formatted in NTFS and wanted to know if a Mac or a Linux system would recognize it.

 

[Joel~]

The standard filesystem used by Linux at the moment is Ext3, but different people use different systems (some have moved on to Ext4, for example, whereas I use ReiserFS). Mac uses, I think, something called HFS (though a Mac-user would need to confirm this for me).

A Linux box will recognise, read-from and write to an NTFS drive. I do it all the time

 

[wenwst]

you can mount ntfs by -t parameters under linux...

 

[AtomicReload]

If you have Windows, be glad of it. Just don't ask about Mac or Linux...

 

[Joel~]

If you have Windows, be glad of it. Just don't ask about Mac or Linux...

What do you mean by that?