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[_] Copying files from mac to windows via firewire disk

Samuel Wright lykoszine at gmail.com
Thu Dec 7 13:15:21 GMT 2006 

> What are the compatible formats between mac and pc? NTFS seems to be
> visible on the mac but you can't write to the disk. From looking
> about the internet, FAT32 (what is this, 1995?!?) appears to be the
> only common disk format. Can this really be true?

You could use ext2/3 and use one of the windows progs [1] to read
that. I think Mac supports that (you might want to check)

[1] http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm

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