You might try exFAT although it's not journaling. On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 11:21 AM, <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > If it was a smaller drive I'd say fat32... I never had a problem using > hfs+ on Linux (also Ubuntu) or NTFS on OS X and Linux. This is one of those > things where there's no "perfect" answer, sadly. I'd say Linux is slightly > more flexible, so go with thatever's easier for OS X to do. > > > > On Thu, 8 May 2014, Mike Miller wrote: > > My son has a new MacBook Pro and I want to put some files on an external >> USB drive for him. The MacBook has two USB 3.0 ports and I have a Seagate >> 3 TB drive with USB 3.0. The Seagate comes formatted with "fuseblk" >> (according to "df -T"), which seems to mean NTFS. >> >> That mostly works but I've had occasional serious problems with data loss >> that I think might be caused by failure of the USB connection (e.g., my >> littlest kid yanks the cord out) or system crashes. Thus, I would prefer >> to use a journaling file system, but I'm not sure which is best. >> >> I am using Ubuntu, FWIW. >> >> In this case, I'll be putting files on the drive and giving it to my son, >> so it is more important that the file system works well with Mac OS X than >> with Linux. It looks like HFS+ can be used with Ubuntu using the package >> hfsprogs, but I get the impression that it is limited and might only create >> non-journaling versions of HFS+. >> >> Any advice? Is there another journaling file system that would work with >> a new OS X box, but that I can create via Linux? It looks like we can get >> ext2/3/4 to work on OS X only by adding a $40 proprietary program, and I >> don't know how well that would actually work. >> >> I could try to borrow a Mac and do it that way, but then I'd have go >> figure out in the Mac how to format an external drive for HFS+. I'd also >> have to find a Mac to borrow, which might be difficult. >> >> Mike >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- http://mtu.net/~jpschewe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140508/33b9e86b/attachment.html>