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Old 10-16-2008, 08:21 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by sclitheroe View Post
I wouldn't recommend storing anything you value on an NTFS partition you are planning to write to from OS X or Linux. It's a relatively immature tech compared to just using FAT32, or sharing out the drive from one of your machines and accessing it over the network
Can you elaborate on that?

As far as file systems go, NTFS/5 is miles ahead of FAT32. There are instances where certain devices don't support NTFS, but that's not a fault of the file system, it's a fault of the device.

Edit: I think what you're saying is that NTFS is much newer than FAT32, and that OSX doesn't work well with it yet. Is that correct? If it is, then doesn't the software linked above provide the missing file system interpreter?

I'm new to macs myself, so I'm not really up-to-date on a lot of the historical Mac OS quirks.

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