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    ext 2 and leopard

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by sunshine_explorer, Dec 14, 2007.

  1. sunshine_explorer

    sunshine_explorer Newbie

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    I'm looking at formatting an external so it can run on both my mac and windows machines and I dont want to use fat 32

    i was wondering what the state of ifs development for leopard is

    anyone know?
     
    sunshine_explorer, Dec 14, 2007
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  2. Sam

    Sam Notebook Virtuoso

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    IFS?

    Anyways, the only way then is to format for Mac (HFS+) and buy MacDrive for Windows, or use the free method (but not as good), formatting as Windows (NTFS) and getting the MacFUSE plugin for OS X, so it can write to NTFS.
     
    Sam, Dec 14, 2007
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