Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:23:12 -0800 (PST) From: Luke Dean <LukeD@pobox.com> To: Christopher Sean Hilton <chilton@vindaloo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removable drives Message-ID: <20060328171656.Y33511@border.crystalsphere.multiverse> In-Reply-To: <20060328232352.GA2765@dagobah.vindaloo.com> References: <20060328232352.GA2765@dagobah.vindaloo.com>
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On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: > I have a question to the community about removable drives, pendrives > and usb and firewire attached hard drives. I'm just wondering how > people are dealing with them in FreeBSD. I don't have any operational > problems with them. I'm just wondering if I'm doing things the hard > way. > > First Question: Which filesystem are people using on usb flash drives > and removable hard drives? I'm using a mixture of ufs2, ext2, and > msdos. I'm using ufs2 because I'm also using cfs to encrypt the > contents and although I haven't tested this, I'm fairly certain cfs > want's semantics that aren't in the msdos filesystem. I use msdosfs because I use my portable devices with MS Windows systems and digital cameras frequently, and I need compatibility more than anything else. > Second Question: Are most people using vfs_usermount=1? I'm using the > automounter. It's a little bit more work to setup but I'm using a > laptop and since I've started to use the automounter the number of > times that I've had to fsck my removable drive because I've suspended > my laptop with a pendrive still attached and mounted has been reduced > incredibly. I define the device to /etc/fstab with the "noauto" option, then explicitly mount and unmount the device as necessary. If I happen to need to mounst more than one of these devices at a time, I study the device numbers and read man pages until I remember how to mount something by its device name. So no, you're not doing things the hard way. :)
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