On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 9:32 AM Tim via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Tim: > > > If I wanted to use a USB hard drive between a Mac and Linux, what are > > > the best choices of file systems that work well in both ways? > > > > > > Chiefly, I'm offloading edited video files from the Mac's drive that's > > > filling up, that I want to keep for posterity. But it would be nice to > > > be able to read and write files on Linux too (sneakernet). > > Samuel Sieb > > Probably FAT32 or EXFAT. > > Thanks, I went with EXFAT. > I've been retired for years, but worked in a group that replaced SGI IRIX4 with macOS. We used EXFAT on external drives. We had colleagues scattered around the globe, so there were often problems with filenames using unicode, including "look alike" characters (hyphen, long dash, etc.), so sometimes needed to rename files and record the original name in a text do. -- George N. White III
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