portable hard disc - cross platform operation

[iggs]

Hello All

I have got a portable USB hard drive which was formatted using the windows NTFS file system. I have no problem reading from linux but i can only write from a windows platform.

Can anyone suggest a way to make this hard drive readable and writable from any platform??

I do plan to use this hard drive on a Mac in the near future and i need to be able to read and write from any platform.

Thanks in advance
IGGS

[devils casper]

Which Linux distro do you have? most of Linux distros do not support NTFS write access out of box. install ntfs-3g package to enable NTFS write access.

[iggs]

Hello
Im using Ubuntu
The problem also exists when i try writing from a mac.

is there a file system that will allow me to write to the disk regardless of which Os im using?

cheers
IGOR

[devils casper]

FAT32 : Mac OS X, Linux and Windows support FAT32 read/write access out of box.

NTFS :
Linux -- install ntfs-3g to enable write access.
MAC OS X ( 10.4 or later ) -- ntfs-3g is available for MAC too but Developer has abandoned it. No Bugs reported yet and you can give it a try. I never used it myself though.

I would suggest you to use FAT32 only.