OS X cannot natively read the popular Ext2 and Ext3 filesystems, though support for these filesystems can be implemented if needed. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

First let me state I plan to completely eliminate windows (except one kids computer for kiddie games) but just use mac mini and linux distros (mepis, etc.). So I have 3 x 200GB and 2 x 250GB (1.1TB) ...

Mac OS X supports a handful of common file systems—HFS+, FAT32, and exFAT, with read-only support for NTFS. It can do this because the file systems are supported by the OS X kernel. Formats such as ...

ACLs, or Access Control Lists, are available for a variety of Linux filesystems including ext2, ext3, and XFS. With XFS, ACL support is available pretty much “out of the box” and with ext2/ext3, it’s ...