RE: firewire / hfs volumes (continued)
Jason Healy wrote:
> You might also try a filesystem type usable by both machines; FAT32
> is read/writeable by both linux and mac. The only drawbacks are
> lack of permissions metadata, possible filename truncation to 8.3,
> and a file size limit of 4GB (e.g., you can't backup DVD images or
> large media files).
Thx Jason, sounds like a plan (I have/had the same question). Before I knew
what was what, I had placed a 2 Gig partition on my drive between OS X and
Linux. I'll convert it to FAT32 soon.
For big files "over FAT32" you could try
> split --bytes=2000000000 bigfile
to get it into 2 Gig chunks
then
> cat xa[a-z] > reassembled
on the other side.
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