Virtualbox for Mac OS X - using an external USB drive, which filesystem is ideal?

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Published on 2010-06-05T07:42:44Z Indexed on 2010/06/05 7:53 UTC
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Assuming that I am NOT going to add NTFS drivers that allow read+write of NTFS partitions, I was wondering if the choice of filesystem when I partition an external USB drive matters. The choices appear to be HFS+ vs. FAT32.

For the time being, I simply created two half-sized paritions, one of each type. :)

I plan to run various versions of Windows, and keep the VirtualBox files on the external drive.

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