OT question about Macbook (OS X) file systems

[Les Mikesell]

Dean S. Messing wrote:
> I just purchaced a Macbook for my daughter as she's off to college
> (required by the dept. she's in).  I'm wondering if OS X understands
> the ext3 filesysystem.  In particular, will it properly handle
> symlinks generated under linux?  I wd. like to give her a USB disk containing
> an ext3 filesystem (that has lots of symlinks) with her 25 Gig organised classical
> music library on it (done on an F8 system).

It won't, but if you samba-share the directory holding the files, 
connect to it from the macbook,  then drop the mapped folder onto itunes 
it will copy and organize the files itself.

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  Les Mikesell
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