Jason Healy wrote:
> You might also try a filesystem type usable by both machines; FAT32
> is read/writeable by both linux and mac.  The only drawbacks are 
> lack of permissions metadata, possible filename truncation to 8.3, 
> and a file size limit of 4GB (e.g., you can't backup DVD images or 
> large media files).

Thx Jason, sounds like a plan (I have/had the same question). Before I knew
what was what, I had placed a 2 Gig partition on my drive between OS X and
Linux.  I'll convert it to FAT32 soon. 

For big files "over FAT32" you could try 

> split --bytes=2000000000 bigfile

to get it into 2 Gig chunks

then 

> cat xa[a-z] > reassembled

on the other side.

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