From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 16 19:06:10 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 271DE106566B for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:06:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB7348FC1A for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:06:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-195-71-245.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.71.245]) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 473ED1E1F6; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:06:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id n9GJ67Gb001962; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:06:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:06:07 +0200 From: Polytropon To: James Phillips Message-Id: <20091016210607.d04d73e4.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <964767.64586.qm@web65507.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> References: <20091016091305.19FFD1065751@hub.freebsd.org> <964767.64586.qm@web65507.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usb key problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:06:10 -0000 On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:05:01 -0700 (PDT), James Phillips wrote: > To be fair, Windows XP supports the NTFS filesystem that is > very feature-rich. And prone to file system corruption, as well as not very performant speed-wise (which doesn't count in regards of backups). :-) > Although, I recall making a XP machine unbootable trying > to format removable media with NTFS because only the > installer woulds use that filesystem. The format utility > let me choose between Fat16 and FAt32 or something :P What a bug... erm, feature! :-) > A better tool, under both Windows (via Cygwin) and BSD, would be ntfsprogs. > > http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsmount Yes, FreeBSD let's you even mount NTFS volumes via smbfs, so you don't have to care for the file system used. This is because "Windows" does not support standard NFS out of the box. This way would be interesting if your machine that holds the backup files is a "Windows" PC. As far as I know, there's a fuse module (ntfs3g?) in the ports. But I have to admit that I've never tried it. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...