<p dir="ltr">Due to patent issues, exfat is not well supported on Linux. See, e.g.:</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="http://askubuntu.com/questions/370398/how-to-get-a-drive-formatted-with-exfat-working">http://askubuntu.com/questions/370398/how-to-get-a-drive-formatted-with-exfat-working</a></p>
<p dir="ltr">I'd use NTFS, myself. It is a journaling-capable filesystem:</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS#Journaling">http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS#Journaling</a></p>
<p dir="ltr">Write support varies on OS X versions, but Paragon makes a solid commercial driver for it. </p>
<p dir="ltr">As someone else pointed out, FAT is an option. As long as you don't need >4G files, it's not a terrible choice. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Thomas<br></p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 8, 2014 6:17 PM, "Jon Schewe" <<a href="mailto:jpschewe@mtu.net">jpschewe@mtu.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">You might try exFAT although it's not journaling.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 11:21 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tclug@freakzilla.com" target="_blank">tclug@freakzilla.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<div>
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On Thu, 8 May 2014, Mike Miller wrote:<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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I am using Ubuntu, FWIW.<br>
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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+.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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