Eric Kjeldergaard wrote:
On 12/31/06, Keith Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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