Re: OT: most universal file system for 1TB external USB2 hard drive

2008-08-29 Thread Andrew Gould
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:17 PM, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is also NTFS through ntfs-3g ,which is available for all of the above (sysutils/fusefs-ntfs on FreeBSD). Having a native Windows filesystem is sensible on a portable drive, and fat32 is not a great filesystem.

Re: OT: most universal file system for 1TB external USB2 hard drive

2008-08-29 Thread RW
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:21:40 -0500 Andrew Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:17 PM, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is also NTFS through ntfs-3g ,which is available for all of the above (sysutils/fusefs-ntfs on FreeBSD). Having a native Windows filesystem is

OT: most universal file system for 1TB external USB2 hard drive

2008-08-22 Thread Andrew Gould
I couldn't help myself. During lunch, I found a 3.5 1TB SATA internal HD **and** a USB2 HD enclosure for SATA drives on sale at large % discounts. It was more than I could resist. The operating systems in my home include FreeBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X and Windows XP Pro. If I want all of these

Re: OT: most universal file system for 1TB external USB2 hard drive

2008-08-22 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:13:29 -0500, Andrew Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I couldn't help myself. During lunch, I found a 3.5 1TB SATA internal HD **and** a USB2 HD enclosure for SATA drives on sale at large % discounts. It was more than I could resist. The operating systems in my home

Re: OT: most universal file system for 1TB external USB2 hard drive

2008-08-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Windows XP Pro. If I want all of these systems to be able to read and write to the drive, what file system should I use? I know fat32 is pretty universal, but is it advisable? yes, just don't put too many small files on it as it's wasteful. and don't put too big files (in order of many GB)

Re: OT: most universal file system for 1TB external USB2 hard drive

2008-08-22 Thread RW
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:13:29 -0500 Andrew Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I couldn't help myself. During lunch, I found a 3.5 1TB SATA internal HD **and** a USB2 HD enclosure for SATA drives on sale at large % discounts. It was more than I could resist. The operating systems in my home