From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 31 23:57:37 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 E058A16A40F for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:57:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kjelderg@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B5D513C428 for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:57:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kjelderg@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so4156545uge for ; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:57:36 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=cVf634T5hLakfKQWjVaS5oOJY99jZlxBpJrQwQv15h6JkAMCOfQIfpcfXU3QddoKW+MW7yi/nrPlGcLCtzdTo0tQMqKt15lH/PM8nepAEkahVdMvtglArSs54FSBzbrlED6wTallJg0aYPmseagYzK3zp1vfbAJX5HJMd7sUVaE= Received: by 10.78.170.17 with SMTP id s17mr3114628hue.1167609456322; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:57:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.14.9 with HTTP; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:57:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:57:36 -0600 From: "Eric Kjeldergaard" To: "Keith Beattie" In-Reply-To: <3aa28e230612311508h6ab7ee86g8c67bbdbc238b5b7@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <3aa28e230612311508h6ab7ee86g8c67bbdbc238b5b7@mail.gmail.com> 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 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 23:57:38 -0000 On 12/31/06, Keith Beattie 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. -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised.