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It's actually exFAT thats portable. NTFS is mostly for windows users, and macs do support it - though only reading.
by shoo_pl 5y ago
It's actually exFAT thats portable. NTFS is mostly for windows users, and macs do support it - though only reading.
- harry8 5y agoAnyone know why? Given ext2 has had a public domain implementation for more than a decade? Is it because windows & mac won't support ext2 even for free? Seems like a better lowest common denominator fs than any of the fats?
- shikoba 5y agoYou can't use easily ext2 on an external storage because of permissions.
- harry8 5y agoIsn't that how it's mounted that matters there?
- shikoba 5y agoI never find an option to ignore permissions.
- MisterTea 5y agoThat's because Linux and OSX ignore NTFS permissions making it work more like FAT. Plug an existing NTFS drive from one Windows system into another Windows system and you get a similar issue where opening a home directory requires you to take ownership.
- shikoba 5y agoBut Linux refuse to ignore permissions on an ext2.
- cerved 5y agothat depends, exFAT lacks permissions and symlinks. I think FreeBSD has NTFS support but lacks exFAT
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago> that depends, exFAT lacks permissions and symlinks. The lack of permissions is why it works as a portable file system. If you've ever tried to use, say, ext for this it becomes clear why nobody does that.
- boring_twenties 5y agoYou can just pass -o uid=X,gid=Y when mounting ext2 to solve this.