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question about partitions

post #1 of 12
3/16/06 at 3:27am
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Hey, how is everyone doing? I am very interested in purchasing a MacBook Pro after the news about Narf and Blanka successfully booting on a Mac.

Once I receive my MBP, I would want to make three partitions (1st for OS10, 2nd for XP, and 3rd for media and document files). I want to do this because I want to minimize duplication of data. I was wondering which format is better (HFS vs NTFS) for retrieving files by the other OS (if that makes ne sense).


P.S. - I posted this on another forum. I just want have a bigger consensus on this topic.

Thanks
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post #2 of 12
3/16/06 at 7:03am
i'd do hfs+ and then have macdrive installed in windows. osx can read but not write to ntfs, and fat32 can only go up to ~132GB. but if that's all u need then u could do fat32, mind u a 4GB filesize limit comes with it (not good for dvd disc images). the unlimited way would be w/ hfs+ and macdrive in windows however.
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post #3 of 12
3/22/06 at 3:24pm
is there a program where I can write ntfs files from my mac?

If not, should I just format my external w/hfs+ and install Macdrive on my PC? I want to be able to read/write from both my PC and Mac.
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post #4 of 12
3/22/06 at 3:31pm
not that i'm aware of. only work around that i know of is over the network, which doesn't work out when it's another partition on the same drive.
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post #5 of 12
3/22/06 at 4:22pm
I would just use HFS+, it is better supported across multiple OSes vs the NTFS system.

There IS a commercial system for linux availiable for NTFS support under linux, so I would be willing to bet it is availiable for Mac as well, unfortunatly I cant remember the name of it right now. But at any rate HFS+ IMO will be your better and easier, and safer, bet.

Seablade
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post #6 of 12
3/24/06 at 4:40pm
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Originally Posted by seablade
I would just use HFS+, it is better supported across multiple OSes vs the NTFS system.

There IS a commercial system for linux availiable for NTFS support under linux, so I would be willing to bet it is availiable for Mac as well, unfortunatly I cant remember the name of it right now. But at any rate HFS+ IMO will be your better and easier, and safer, bet.

Seablade
mind you NTFS writes in linux are still experimental and possibly dangerous.
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post #7 of 12
3/24/06 at 7:08pm
No the solution I was referring to ABF is neither, but it is also a closed source solution I believe.

The default support in the KERNEL you would be correct, but this is commercial software availiable for linux I am referring to.

Seablade
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post #8 of 12
3/24/06 at 8:32pm
There's a solution for Linux that lets you put a wrapper around the NTFS drivers for Windows, but I can't remember where I saw it at. Seems like it shouldn't be too hard to adopt it to Mac.
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post #9 of 12
3/25/06 at 12:26am
Kakaze I believe you are referring to the Captive drivers.

However I dont know if the NTFS drivers depend on the BIOS code for HD access, dont know enough about them to be certain and that is deeper into OS programming than I usually delve.

Seablade
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post #10 of 12
3/25/06 at 3:19am
I went looking for it earlier but I couldn't find much info.
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post #11 of 12
3/25/06 at 1:27pm
well, I just formatted my external and used HFS+. Then installed MacDrive on my PC to be able to read/write. All seems to work fine now.
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post #12 of 12
3/30/06 at 5:25pm
Heh somehow I missed the replies to this, but figured I would fill people in...

Paragon NTFS for Linux- The commercial NTFS solution on linux

Captive Linux Drivers- The wrapper for the NTFS drivers in windows to run on linux

Those were the two different projects referenced here I believe, along with the drivers in the kernel that ABF mentioned.

Happy Reading

Seablade

PS Dang I wish these boards supported HTML at times
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