Hi,
I’d like to set up an external hard drive that is both accessible for Mac OSX and Debian. Does anyone have a recommendation which file system to use?
Thanks!
Hi,
Linux generally does not have problem to read any file system and this includes native file system developed by Apple HFS or HFS+ . Therefore, feel free to use this filesystem with both Linux and Mac OSX.
To format your hard drive on debian first install “hfsprogs” package as root with:
apt-get install hfsprogs
make sure that your partition is of HFS / HFS+ which is fylesystem type: AF . To do this use cfdisk. Once ready simply format your drive with:
mkfs.hfsplus /dev/sXXX
where /dev/sXXX is a block device of your hard drive’s partition.
If you need more help please plug-in your USB drive and paste here an output of
fdisk -l
command. All commands above are run as root user.