I have a USB ext HDD. Its formatted to NTFS and I wanted to use it for windows, mac, linux, and of course MorphOS.

However in anything but windows shows as read only. Can MorphOS not write to NTFS drives or is this another issue?

Current NTFS drivers are not supporting writing under MorphOS. That won't change in a near future probably :(

Our NTFS implementation is read only indeed and as far as I know, Marek said write support is too much work. If you want an FS that works everywhere, use FAT.

Too much work? That has to be done when MorphOS will move over to x86. Just kidding ;)

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Hi,
Is ext2 filesystem writeable in MorphOS 2.5, right ?

> Is ext2 filesystem writeable in MorphOS 2.5, right ?

Yes.

Thanks

Im guessing both MacOS and ubuntu will read and write FAT32.

I suppose the only issue is the 4GB file sizes and using such a crap file system.

What about MAC os filesystem, will MorphOS and Linux read and write this. I can loose windows if needs be so what would the best file system be for the other three, is it still FAT32 ?

@JJ: format it with SFS!
What? SFS is not supported on Linux/Windows/Mac? Ask them to support it!

:-D

HFS is r/w under MorphOS and Ubuntu, but has similar limitations as FAT32.

HFS+ is read-only under MorphOS, can't remember if Ubuntu has r/w support for it.

Fat32 is available to all r/w.
HFS is available to all r/w.
Ext2/3 is available to all r/w (fuse-ext2 under OSX).

No idea about reliability of HFS & Ext2/3 handlers (under MorphOS/Ubuntu), but Fat32 is well tried&tested.

[ Edited by boot_wb on 2010/8/25 13:35 ]

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Linux had SFS support, but noone was willing to maintain the code, so it was removed.

I couldn't get my mac to see a 260GB NTFS USB drive, did you need to do anything to get it work? So I gave up and put FAT32 on it...