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All Mac Household - Now
Hello everyone,
Quick question, just switched to all Macs now but have an external USB 1TB attached to the NAS that was formatted in NTFS. I cannot see any files on it when I mount it as a share using AFP. When I direct connect to the iMac it does show files, but obviously only read since it is NTFS.
My question is: should I reformat the USB hard drive? If so, what file system? Should I reformat through Mac OS X Lion, or Frontview (FAT32 or EXT3)?
Thanks!
Quick question, just switched to all Macs now but have an external USB 1TB attached to the NAS that was formatted in NTFS. I cannot see any files on it when I mount it as a share using AFP. When I direct connect to the iMac it does show files, but obviously only read since it is NTFS.
My question is: should I reformat the USB hard drive? If so, what file system? Should I reformat through Mac OS X Lion, or Frontview (FAT32 or EXT3)?
Thanks!
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- I would format it to EXT3 via Frontview (after copying the files off it of course). This will give you the best performance if you intend to keep it connected to the NAS. Would need to install EXT3 driver on your Mac to be able to read this though if you were to connect the USB disk directly to a Mac.
If you don't intend to connect it to the NAS then format it using your Mac to HFS+. Your NAS cannot read disks formatted this way. - Definitely intend to use it on the NAS as my backup to the RAID backup. But, would like to be able to connect it to a Mac as required...so guessing EXT3 it is. Any recommendations on an EXT3 driver?
- You could try MacFuse with fuse-ext2.
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