Best cross-platform format for Mac & Windows? Just had a cross-platform snafu with a USB stick. FAT32 or something? I want to be able to read/write to the drive on both Mac & Windows with no issues.

I created a bootable USB stick using an Ubuntu 8.10 live CD and the (manual) instructions shown at this guide. This worked great. However, what I'd really like to do is create a multi-booting version ...

You can format an external drive quickly and easily in Windows, without the need of any third-party tools. But before you format your USB drive, you need to consider which file system to use. File ...