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
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