On 5/2/20 3:11 am, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> If one is on a debian system and formatting a usb drive > that will be recognized by a Mac, I know that xfs is usually > a good choice for the file system but what type of partition > are we supposed to use to enclose that xfs file system? I know from personal experience that Macs recognize FAT32 (read/write) and NTFS (read only) - but not ext3.
I also had some success with exfat for a short while. Eventually accepted the inevetable and bought the NTFS writer.
Sad because apple decreed that pc 'too old' shortly after. It ran linux for another 5 years. Clearly they believe that thier own OS it too big.
-- Keith Bainbridge keith.bainbridge.3216@gmail.com 0447 667 468