Reading and writing Windows and Linux file formats under Mac OS - what works?

[Mr.Bullitt]

Hi guys!


I am curious - and before I attempt something that could go wrong - what is the state of reading and writing foreign file formats under Mac OS?

For a long time e.g. NTFS has been readable under Linux, but recently in my Mandriva 2009.1 "spring" powerpack, I found out that now it can also write NTFS - without having to install xtra softwaredrivers and with no warnings as were usual.. seem to work fine..

How is it on Mac OS - can it read and write NTFS? How about Ext3 Linux format??

( I have a lot of data in these formats that I would to migrate to my new MBP 🙂 )

Cheers!

 

[old-wiz]

out of the box, OSx can read NTFS but not write to it. You need a 3rd party addon to write NTFS.

 

[Koronis]

the addon needed for OSX to write to ntfs is called ntfs-3g, you also appear to need macfuse installed

 

[old-wiz]

ext3 is not well supported in osx. A google search will help you.
There's a project macfuse, but people report it's not that great.