Read/write support can be gained with third-party NTFS-3G.
NTFS – In OS X, the kernel only has partial read-only support.There are two others that are worth mentioning, along with why they didn’t quite make the cut:
Most of the data came from Wikipedia (as retrieved on 2015-Feb-20): The following table puts various differences between FAT32 and UDF side-by-side. Why not choose one that supports multiple OSes natively? Survey of Native OS SupportĪ quick survey of Wikipedia’s Comparison of File Systems reveals that only a small number of file systems have native support for Windows, OS X, *and* Linux. Many folks don’t realize that *any* drive can be reformatted in *any* format you choose. Most drives come pre-formatted in a certain file system. The answer is “yes”, and it doesn’t even depend on what hard/flash drive you have. You have a grand plan of using an external hard drive (or flash drive) to transfer/backup files between all of them. Or maybe you’re nerdy (like me) and run Linux alongside the other two.
