Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:40:43 +0200 From: "Ivan Levchenko" <levchenko.i@gmail.com> To: "Chris Hastie" <lists@oak-wood.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Big external drives - which filesystem? Message-ID: <e39dd5bb0611221140x65fbe4d0mae1f9b5e9287be77@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3UroRaFMaCXFFwwJ@celandine.oak-wood.co.uk> References: <3UroRaFMaCXFFwwJ@celandine.oak-wood.co.uk>
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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 <lists@oak-wood.co.uk> 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 in the manual about FAT32 not supporting > partitions >32 GB and suggesting you change it to NTFS). > > Attempting to mount this hits the "mountmsdosfs(); disk too big, sorry" > problem. > > The primary intended use for this drive is for off-site backups, but it > would be useful if it was formatted such that I can easily plug it into > Windows boxes to get at files occasionally. What are my best options for > achieving this? > > The MSDOSFS_LARGE kernel option seems to come with a lot of warnings and > caveats. Is it really as ropey as it sounds? Is NTFS an option? Or would > I be better partitioning the drive into two FAT32 partitions of < 128GB > each? If I go down that route how does this appear to FreeBSD - > presumably as different slices on da0 which are mounted separately? Or > am I just asking for trouble using these filesystems and should just > stick to ufs2 and abandon any plans to maintain compatibility with > windows machines? > > Thanks for your help. > -- > Chris Hastie > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Best Regards, Ivan Levchenko levchenko.i@gmail.com
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