On Thu, 8 May 2014, 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. Well, HFS+ is easier for OS X, obviously. Is it hard to format a 3 TB USB drive, currently NTFS, as HFS+ in Ubuntu? Have you done that? Mike