From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 5 10:39:18 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 F004016A41F for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 10:39:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from angus@aggyb.homeunix.net) Received: from aggyb.homeunix.net (host-84-9-199-96.bulldogdsl.com [84.9.199.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 652F943D45 for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 10:39:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from angus@aggyb.homeunix.net) Received: from agb.studnet (agb.studnet [192.168.0.10]) by aggyb.homeunix.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j75Adtm0041183; Fri, 5 Aug 2005 11:40:02 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from angus@aggyb.homeunix.net) From: Angus Barrow To: Daniel Finnimore In-Reply-To: <000801c599a4$94e5edb0$0a01a8c0@menicom1> References: <000801c599a4$94e5edb0$0a01a8c0@menicom1> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 11:39:09 +0100 Message-Id: <1123238349.11605.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.3.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Storage on FBSD 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: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 10:39:19 -0000 It is indeed possible to have FreeBSD read from a FAT formatted drive however this is not necessary if you will be sharing the files via a network connection. If you are sharing files to windows machines then it is easier to have the files to be shared on a UFS formatted partition and to use SAMBA to share the files. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-samba.html. On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 11:00 +0100, Daniel Finnimore wrote: > Like many people in the it business, I am sure, I have lots of old kit around and am using one P3 with ide drive to run FBSD 4.7 for my shared internet access on 64K dialup ppp. > > With sco unix I can format a drive using dos and then use that section of the drive as as network drive for storage, files etc. Can I do this with FBSD. Ideally an old intel P3 with 4 ide drives one partitioned with FBSD the others all FAT 32. > > What do you think. > > Dan > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >