linux/windows/mac filesystem

[gboyce at badbelly.com (Gregory Boyce)]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, John Jannotti wrote:

>
> I've joined the external USB/Firewire drive bandwagon.  I'm mostly using
> this on my (Linux) machine, but since I'll be storing things like movies
> and such, I'd like to be able to bring it along when I see friends who use
> Windows and Macs, plug it in, and access my stuff.
>
> Is Fat32 my only option for universal access?  I'd accept that, except that
> Fat32 seems to be pretty limited.  For example, it won't allow changes to
> the last modified time, so it's hard to use it as the target of an rsync.

Fat32 is your only option really out of box, but ext2 drivers seem to be 
available for both Windows and Mac OS X.  Not sure if that would be 
acceptable for you though since it would require installing those drivers 
on any system you want to access your disk.

Probably not worthwhile for the small gain that ext2 gives you in a case 
like this.

> What do keychain drives use?

fat