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Cc: Tsampros Leonidas <ltsampros@upnet.gr>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: mountmsdosfs(): disk too big still a problem?
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Kevin Kinsey wrote:

> FAT32 still seems to be a good option
> for cross-platform USB mass storage, for example, as NTFS isn't
> really writable by FBSD either....

What is "not really"? I never had problems with writing to an NTFS 
partition with FreeBSD as long as I don't use special features of NTFS; 
just creating and deleting files and directories. I think it's good 
enough for temporary data that is dispensable.

Björn