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on 7/12/06 13:09, Jake Rayson at subs at firebox.nu wrote:

> 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?

Pretty much (although there's probably Windows apps to read unixy
filesystems). But watch out - Mac files will lose their resource forks when
copying onto anything non-HFS+. It's a really bad idea to use anything else
for backups - even QT movies (created with earlier versions of QT) won't
play if they lose their resource forks.

If you want to backup onto a non-HFS+ disk, create a sparse diskimage on it
first, mount it, and copy to that. Of course, then your PC won't be able to
read the files in the disk image, so no good if you want to do that. But
it's fine for backups.

Oliver.