Re: Big external drives - which filesystem?

2006-11-22 Thread Ivan Levchenko
There is a UFS2 driver for Windows, google on it and you are sure to find it. (There are also ext2/3 drivers for Windows if you prefer that one.) I use ext2 on my usb pen drive and it works great under windows. On 11/16/06, Chris Hastie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just acquired a Western

Big external drives - which filesystem?

2006-11-16 Thread Chris Hastie
I've just acquired a Western Digital 200GB USB 2 external HDD. After some initial glitches my FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE machine seems to recognise it fine. It comes pre-formatted with a single FAT32 file system (although confusingly there is a note in the manual about FAT32 not supporting

Re: Big external drives - which filesystem?

2006-11-16 Thread Alistair Sutton
On 16/11/06, Chris Hastie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just acquired a Western Digital 200GB USB 2 external HDD. After some initial glitches my FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE machine seems to recognise it fine. It comes pre-formatted with a single FAT32 file system (although confusingly there is a note

Big external drives - which filesystem?

2006-11-16 Thread Robert Huff
Chris Hastie writes: Is NTFS an option? You should check the archives ... but I believe the answer to that is No. Last I remember, NTFS write support was broken and read support was flakey in strange ways (i.e. worked for some people some of the time). (I just added an