[VEGAN]

As I'm going for clean re-install in a few hours... why should or should I not use the "unix HD format"?

I'm not sure if this is the right forum
But anyway...

When I installed linux it sort of a by default made many partitions. Does that make sense for Mac OS X? Or should I go for simple 2 partition: system and data... or...?

[chabig]

Use HFS+. If you choose UFS, some things won't work.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25316

This article says it's only applicable to 10.2.8 and earlier, but I'd assume some of the considerations apply to 10.3 as well.

Chris

[johnMG]

At one point I was switching between using GNU/Linux and OS X on my PowerBook. I found that Linux couldn't read my thumbdrive after I'd formatted it UFS under OS X. Also, OS X wouldn't read it after I'd formatted it UFS under Linux.

Yes, weird, I know. Never found a solution. I'm not investigating the issue any further as I've gone completely OS X as of late (for now anyway).

Just from that experience alone, Vegan, I'd say don't use Apple's UFS.

By the way, most GNU/Linux distros these days use ext3 (journaled version of ext2) as the default file system format.