From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 31 23:36:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E19C916A403 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:36:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ksbeattie@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F0E613C459 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:36:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ksbeattie@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so4155335uge for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:36:27 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=I5Rfs5rLIBg3ntBYJclXtkGu9NBRAmD7Q5x+L0NW5kXUkARcYpW2aBSBZfgbpPLBx9k1NYULDE+/0uM6WiPApsxZSIYKDpS3S3RAbeBFdvo+mMhUkkNO/KG9ai8R3Ngwb9CdCPmtpSOfc4YY+Mlqj2x/RVPy1vBax/klF3b5GjA= Received: by 10.78.201.10 with SMTP id y10mr3109889huf.1167606517086; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:08:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.200.14 with HTTP; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:08:37 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3aa28e230612311508h6ab7ee86g8c67bbdbc238b5b7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:08:37 -0800 From: "Keith Beattie" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: file system for FreeBSD, OS X and WinXP? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:36:29 -0000 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. The disc came formatted FAT32, which FreeBSD didn't like ("too big" was the error when mounting). Formatting it UFS on OS X, showed that Apple's notion of UFS differs significantly from FreeBSD's notion of UFS. Formatting it under FreeBSD, likewise, leaves it only usable there. Is there a file system which will work for a drive this size on at least FreeBSD and OS X? It appears that HFS+ is a possibility, but I'm concerned that the support for that file system under FreeBSD is not current. What are people's experiences here? Is it perhaps better to punt on the idea of moving the drive about and go with a NAS-like solution running NFS/Samba and such on the FreeBSD box? TIA, ksb