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I'm copying a big archive of files from a Linux host to an external USB hard drive, that will then plug into a macOS host. The copy should preserve the archive's many symbolic links (ln -s). What filesystem should I format the external disk as?
I'm unable to reproduce this. Automator seems to returns all files/folders, whether they are symlinks or not.
I set up the following:
$ mkcd testfolder
$ mkdir originalfolder
$ ln -s originalfolder symlinkoforiginal
$ ls
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 5 grgarside staff 170B 23 Jul 20:04 ./
drwx------@ 11 grgarside staff 374B 23 Jul 20:04 ../
-rw-r--r--@ 1 grgarside staff 6.0K 23 Jul 20:04 .DS_Store
drwxr-xr-x 2 grgarside staff 68B 23 Jul 20:04 originalfolder/
lrwxr-xr-x 1 grgarside staff 50B 23 Jul 20:04 symlinkoforiginal -> /Users/grgarside/Desktop/testfolder/originalfolder
I ran the following Automator workflow:
As shown in the results, both the folder and the symlink were returned.
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Best Answer
HFS+ (Mac OS Extended Journaled)
Why?
See this for Linux installation tutorial.