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Use FAT32 or FAT16 on cross-platform external hard drives
Authored by: rhowell on Oct 22, '03 12:33:46PM

Fat16 and Fat32 don't support file permissions, so you'll lose that security. That is, in a multiuser environment (such as a university) any user will be able to read/write any other users files.

Of course, this breach in security is always possible with HFS+ by simply reading/writing these files from an OS 9 app.

A fully secure machine will have only HFS+ and no OS 9.



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Use FAT32 or FAT16 on cross-platform external hard drives
Authored by: TvE on Oct 22, '03 03:34:02PM

Panther is capable of reading NTFS formatted volumes :-)



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