Re: External HD partitioning & formatting considerations

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What about exfat ?

2019年11月30日(土) 18:10 Fred Smith <fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 05:19:44PM +0100, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > One of my clients has a mixed Linux/Mac OS/Windows environment in his
> office.
> > He just purchased a 4 TB external hard disk, which he intends to use on
> his
> > various workstations.
> >
> > Up until recently, I've been using plain old MBR/FAT for hard disks in
> mixed
> > environments. Fire up fdisk, make one big 0b type partition, and then
> format it
> > using mkdosfs.
> >
> > Unfortunately, there's a 2 TB limit to that.
> >
> > Of course, I could still use a GPT partition, but then I'd still have to
> format
> > it using a "common denominator" filesystem, e. g. FAT... which is also
> limited
> > to 2 TB as far as I know.
> >
> > So what now? Use Windows 10 to format the disk using NTFS? This, Windows
> and
> > Linux could use it, and I'd have to check if Mac OS can manage NTFS file
> > systems. A few years ago, it didn't.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> Maybe UDF?
>
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