#HOW TO USE PARAGON EXTFS FOR WINDOWS WINDOWS#

#HOW TO USE PARAGON EXTFS FOR WINDOWS WINDOWS#

The lack of ability to become deranged by either HFS-J or Linux merely reading NTFS (writing to NTFS is, naturally, a different story - that is why I generally leave NTFS-write disabled) is why I prefer NTFS as a source partition, even for files that Windows has zero use for (such as OS X or Linux-targeting datafiles, etc.) Even better, NTFS is like type O (the Universal Donor) -В both OS X and Linux distributions can read it by default. Mounting a disk image doesn't change the underlying filesystem hosting the file it makes it easier for the gaining filesystem to handle the contents, but that's all. What I DON'T get is why this is still surprising. One thing that STILL surprises folks is being able to mount an image file from a foreign file system - specifically, things like DMG files stored on NTFS. Mount an image file from an FFS - Why Not? If read-only access is enough, NTFS is the least-derangeable by other OSes accessing it (that is why I tend to use NTFS as my overall *host* FS - stability). That said, OS X has the greatest 'default' FFS support (read-only for NTFS, and, of course, read/write for all previous flavors of OS X) - however, if you are willing to recompile the kernel (not as difficult as you would think), Linux can beat it (there's a HOWTO hosted on on kernel recompiling for file-system support that is actually newbie-friendly). I'm someone that runs multiple OSes with multiple file-systems on a daily basis - NTFS (two flavors), ext4 (Linux distributions) and HFS-J (OS X Yosemite)(HFS-J is HFS with Journaling - Yosemite's default). If you properly plan, READ access is typically enough. Generally (NAS or not), the only reason that anyone would need WRITE access to a Foreign File System (FFS) is poor partition planning.

If it is a network share, it is irrelevant how it drive is formatted as long as the host os can read it and can write to it. The file system only pertains to the os directly attaching to it.

How to use paragon extfs for windows