From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 22 19:40:50 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 5167016A47B for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 19:40:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from levchenko.i@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 000C843D5A for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 19:40:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from levchenko.i@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so234670uge for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:40:44 -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:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=RQyzMzdc3K3xc6ZoV4MSmoL51I+VJCGNdkRMkezqoi8U4qzKD7Pn64VntNFIlivz2UJDSRBi11olPDM1lT5vZW+OCowKqbMqSdkCcUYXTvkb/Bn69j8JEThFHNslh24Pd0up3lPXEbjIHDDUNmA//rFjqToxJXWJUd+urkWHhL0= Received: by 10.66.244.10 with SMTP id r10mr3652789ugh.1164224444300; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:40:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.66.233.7 with HTTP; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:40:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:40:43 +0200 From: "Ivan Levchenko" To: "Chris Hastie" In-Reply-To: <3UroRaFMaCXFFwwJ@celandine.oak-wood.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <3UroRaFMaCXFFwwJ@celandine.oak-wood.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Big external drives - which filesystem? 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: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 19:40:50 -0000 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 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