From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 29 01:23:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C8FC16A401 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:23:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from LukeD@pobox.com) Received: from proof.pobox.com (proof.pobox.com [207.106.133.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4113D43D4C for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:23:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from LukeD@pobox.com) Received: from proof (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by proof.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68215C242E; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:23:18 -0500 (EST) Received: from border.crystalsphere.multiverse (pool-71-112-204-105.sttlwa.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.112.204.105]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by proof.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5AE633C42; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:23:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:23:12 -0800 (PST) From: Luke Dean X-X-Sender: lukas@border.crystalsphere.multiverse To: Christopher Sean Hilton In-Reply-To: <20060328232352.GA2765@dagobah.vindaloo.com> Message-ID: <20060328171656.Y33511@border.crystalsphere.multiverse> References: <20060328232352.GA2765@dagobah.vindaloo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removable drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Luke Dean List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:23:19 -0000 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. :)