I currently have a PowerPC g5 running Mac OSx. I've network shared one of the external hard drives (which is mac formatted, hfs+ journalled i believe).
I'm now upgrading this to an ubuntu computer, and I want to ditch that external hard drive and use the ubuntu server's hard drive (ext4).
My question: Can I store Mac fonts on ext4? When I zip and copy the fonts to a windows pc on the network, they all come up as 0kb. Is there anyway to fix this? If not, will these fonts still work on a networked MAC pc? so if I have another mac on the network will it be able to read the ubuntu file system and pick up those font files?
Let me know if you'd like me to explain further, sorry I am new to all this.
We need to separate how you are accessing the files from how they are stored.
If you are using CIFS or NFS to share an ext4 folder on a Linux machine, then you should be able to access the fonts over the network just fine although you may or may not see performance issues depending on your network setup.
If you want the Mac to read the disk directly (i.e. not over the network) then you will need something like MacFuse ( http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ ) to read the ext4 format.
Actually placing the files on ext4 should not be a problem, and in theory you shouldn't be having this issue when you place the fonts on a Windows box (I suspect something went wrong with your zipping or unzipping).
Further questions arise as to whether you just want to share these fonts among various OSes or whether you want the Mac to treat them as fonts in a standard (user, system) location. However, the above should be enough to get you started.