Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 17:42:49 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse <chris@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: file system for FreeBSD, OS X and WinXP? Message-ID: <45994819.9030105@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <d9175cad0612311557w1c6fa77bqce17b970520cb774@mail.gmail.com> References: <3aa28e230612311508h6ab7ee86g8c67bbdbc238b5b7@mail.gmail.com> <d9175cad0612311557w1c6fa77bqce17b970520cb774@mail.gmail.com>
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Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: > On 12/31/06, Keith Beattie <ksbeattie@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> I recently picked up a big 700G external USB/Firewire Seagate drive with >> the >> hopes of using it to store my growing collection of music, photos, etc. >> currently spread across several different machines (all with nearly full >> discs). My hope is that I could use a single file system on this drive >> which could then be plugged into any of these machines which run FreeBSD, >> OS >> X, or WinXP. >> > > My usual recommendation for this very problem is the ext2 filesystem. As > far as I know, the drivers exist and work reasonably well for win32, > MacOSX, > linux, BSD, and several others. If taking it to machines that may not have > network to get FS drivers is an issue, you could consider several small > partitions each with an FS driver for a specific OS on it. > I chose ext2fs for the same reason. It worked fine until a power cut crashed the FreeBSD machine it was attached to and left the ext2fs partition in a big mess. I couldn't mount it until I had fsck'd it which needs sysutils/e2fsprogs. I think in the end I didn't lose data but now I don't trust it for holding data I don't want to lose. Chris
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