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I'm starting to use a mac, and would like to install different operating systems on it, and, if possible, share some partitions. (like home)

I'm planning to install Debian along with Mac OS X Snow Leopard, and share it's home directory, of, if possible, at least, create a new partition only for my mp3 files.

Anyone knows a guide for it? Or risks in doing it... thanks!

Somebody still uses you MS-DOS
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It's possible to use ext3 on a mac. I'm going through that route.

Somebody still uses you MS-DOS
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I guess one simple solution is to create the exFAT partition (same partition as many USB keys).

The support is very good on MacOs and Linux.

Saying that, FAT32 is so old that it does not support recent modern partition feature

Here is an excellent discussion on almost the same topics (cross platform with Linux / Mac / Windows)

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You can mount your OSX partitions with "mount -t hfs". Doing that on a read-only basis (ie: "mount -t hfs -o ro /dev/sdaX") is very safe. I don't trust writes to it though. If you're transferring files between systems, it is better to setup an additional hfs formatted partition for that purpose.

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If you are using several operating systems and you are not maxing out the CPU or disk speed the it might be easier to start with running the OSs in a virtual machine. There are severla including a free one Virtual Box This can allow the OS in the box to access data in shared directories on the host OS.

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