Copying to external disk with FAT32, how

[paraxelsson]

Hi again,

thanks a lot; that's a really quick answer! Although I shouldn't be surprised after reading the other posts at the forum; "quick" is your middle name, right? ("Helpful" ought to be your nick name, then.)

Enough flattering. So you're telling me there is no single filesystem (except FAT32) that can be read, natively, by both Linux, Windows and OS X?

Do you know if there is a way to format the external disk into NTFS, ext3 or hfs+ without losing the data already on it? (Yes, I understand that I should be asking this question somewhere else, but I thought I could give it a shot here too)