How to Format an External Hard Drive on Linux that is compatible with other OS

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To format an external hard drive on linux that is compatible with Mac:

Download this:

http://pkgs.org/download/hfsprogs                                     rpm -Uvh this rpm
yum update
Then use gparted and make the filesystem hfsplus

To format an external hard drive on linux that is compatible with Windows:

 yum install ntfs-progs
 yum list | grep ntfs
 yum install ntfsprogs.x86_64

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