How to format a drive to Ext2/Ext3 from a Mac (or Windows)
With the prices of external drives falling faster than the stock market, I decided to invest in a Seagate FreeAgent Desk USB hard drive. I wanted to use my old, trusted 160GB hard drive as a shared storage resource that I can access anywhere from within my home network. In network lingo, it is called a NAS (Network Attached Storage).