From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 7 03:03:37 2011 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 66DFB106566B for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2011 03:03:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xaero@xaerolimit.net) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35A8D8FC15 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2011 03:03:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iyb26 with SMTP id 26so4181788iyb.13 for ; Sun, 06 Feb 2011 19:03:36 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.175.6 with SMTP id ay6mr3766356icb.498.1297047816213; Sun, 06 Feb 2011 19:03:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.42.241.138 with HTTP; Sun, 6 Feb 2011 19:03:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.42.241.138 with HTTP; Sun, 6 Feb 2011 19:03:36 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <201102061925.28021.lobo@bsd.com.br> References: <4D4DF58D.2040506@computer.org> <4D4EC7CB.7010200@computer.org> <201102061925.28021.lobo@bsd.com.br> Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 22:03:36 -0500 Message-ID: From: Chris Brennan To: Mario Lobo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Eric Schuele Subject: Re: 8.2 prerelease, virtualbox, and windows guests that freeze... 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: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 03:03:37 -0000 Net, I've formatted drives as fat32 that were well over 4gb. In fact I have an external 120gb we datavault that's fat32 -- Sent from my Droid On Feb 6, 2011 5:25 PM, "Mario Lobo" wrote: > On Sunday 06 February 2011 17:48:45 Chris Brennan wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Eric Schuele wrote: >> > I realize NTFS on fBSD has been shaky in the past, but had heard it had >> > come a long way these days. It does seem to work well for all my >> > purposes, except these VMs. Had hoped NTFS was not the issue. >> >> ntfs/ntfs-3g is foolhardy at best in linux *and* fbsd ... it's trashed so >> many drives.partitions on me it's not even funny anymore... and I never did >> much w/ them except small stuff anyway. If you need to access the volumes >> in *nix/windows then why not FAT32 then? I use a FAT32 drive for my music >> so I can access it in any OS reliably and the drive is now 6+ years old. > > FAT32 max file size is 4Gig. > > > -- > Mario Lobo > http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br > FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99% winblows FREE)