Linux operating system to read ALL hdd formats

[jonathanbruce]

Hello everybody!

I'm looking for a way to read all my existing hard drives from various different platforms (Ubuntu, Mac osx, Windows 7 & 8) on one computer. Is there a way of doing this? I'm curious to find out. Are there any distros out there already that do the whole lot, or am I better off doing this from my iMac or MacbookPro?

Would appreciate any feedback on this.
I have a lot of edited music and audio files on each computer.

 

[jack.mitchell]

Most Linux distros should be able to read Windows (NTFS), Mac (HFS+) and of course the Ubuntu drives. If you've already got a Linux distro running (Ubuntu in this case) then why don't you test them out on that and see if they work?

 

[OhEsEcks]

Search your repositories (I'm on Crunchbang/Debian so output may be different for Ubuntu, but I've listed what you should be looking for when you pass the arguments on Ubuntu terminal).

sudo apt-cache search ntfs-3g

ntfs-3g - read/write NTFS driver for FUSE

sudo apt-cache search hfsutils

hfsutils - Tools for reading and writing Macintosh volumes

sudo apt-cache search hfsplus

hfsplus - Tools to access HFS+ formatted volumes

To install...

sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g hfsutils hfsplus

There's many more filesystems you can support, but those should be enough for what you need.