backing up email / saving maildir on external hard drives

[Kevin Laurie]

Hi Felix,

I would prefer having one HDD that works with all three OSes. That
would be very convenient.
Guess exFAT is my best bet. Its supported on Linux,Win and OS X.
What do you reckon?
Best Regards
Kevin

On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Felix Zielcke <fzielcke at z-51.de> wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 08.08.2015, 21:45 +0530 schrieb Kevin Laurie:
>> Dear Christian,
>> Thanks for your feedback.
>> The HDD will not accept larger than 4GB (as its in FAT format). Its a
>> new
>> external HDD. Thinking of the best format(that would work with Mac ,
>> Win
>> and Linux) .seems like a challenge.
>> What's your view on NTFS? And why not exFAT?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Kevin
>>
>
> Hi Kevin,
>
> you can have multiple partitions even on an external HDD.
> Or do you really need one big partition which works on all 3 OS?
>
> For Win and OS X I'd use exFAT.
> OS X AFAIK doestn't have write support on NTFS enabled by default.
> And then for Linux a native FS like ext4,btrfs,XFS or whatever you
> personally prefer.
>
> Though the best would be indeed 3 partitions for each OS.
> NTFS for Windows
> And then HFS+ for OS X
>
> For example I use on my backup HDD NTFS for Windows and btrfs for my
> Linux Systems