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Old 08-11-2011, 10:23 AM   #1
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Smile hard drive formatting, compatibility with Macs, and Windows Etc, suggestions?


hard drive formatting, compatibility with Macs, and Windows Etc, suggestions? GUID APM or what else?

Yes I am learning please no jokes.

thanks

oh yeah hey can I format a hard drive on a linux system that will be compatible witha Mac?

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Old 08-11-2011, 10:35 AM   #2
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GUID and APM are not related to hard-disks at all. AFAIK, if you want to be compatible with Windows and MacOS X you have to use FAT32 as filesystem. If you don't need write support on MacOS X you can use NTFS.
 
Old 08-11-2011, 10:42 AM   #3
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Yes fat32 would be the choice although it won't accept files bigger than 4 gb
 
Old 08-11-2011, 10:43 AM   #4
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hey thanks very much!

hey thanks very much!
 
  


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