Due to patent issues, exfat is not well supported on Linux. See, e.g.: http://askubuntu.com/questions/370398/how-to-get-a-drive-formatted-with-exfat-working I'd use NTFS, myself. It is a journaling-capable filesystem: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS#Journaling Write support varies on OS X versions, but Paragon makes a solid commercial driver for it. As someone else pointed out, FAT is an option. As long as you don't need >4G files, it's not a terrible choice. Thomas On May 8, 2014 6:17 PM, "Jon Schewe" <jpschewe at mtu.net> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140508/f19feeaa/attachment.html>