From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 6 11:59:41 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF5351065676 for ; Tue, 6 May 2008 11:59:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-chat-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.78.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A0C78FC1B for ; Tue, 6 May 2008 11:59:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-chat-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from Lowell-Desk.lan (Lowell-Desk.lan [172.30.250.6]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA64A28479; Tue, 6 May 2008 07:44:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: by Lowell-Desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id D3A081CC34; Tue, 6 May 2008 07:44:27 -0400 (EDT) To: Carlos Porto Filho References: <481FC49E.2040106@oi.com.br> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 07:44:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <481FC49E.2040106@oi.com.br> (Carlos Porto Filho's message of "Mon\, 05 May 2008 23\:38\:22 -0300") Message-ID: <44zlr38xno.fsf@Lowell-Desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: file system X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 11:59:41 -0000 Carlos Porto Filho writes: > What file system do you use for a data partition (music, video..) to > use between windows and freebsd in a dual boot system? is there > something better than fat32? To be honest, FAT isn't that bad a filesystem for relatively large files which change relatively rarely. I find that this is the case for my media files. However, I don't use FAT, because I'm not sharing with another OS. ;-)