From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Nov 4 09:13:06 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A317C178CC6 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2019 09:13:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from outmx-028.london.gridhost.co.uk (outmx-028.london.gridhost.co.uk [95.142.156.253]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4766XK474Fz49VC for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2019 09:13:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from curlew.milibyte.co.uk (unknown [82.71.56.121]) (Authenticated sender: mailpool@milibyte.co.uk) by outmx-028.london.gridhost.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 301CA221A5B97; Mon, 4 Nov 2019 09:13:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=curlew.localnet) by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.92.3) (envelope-from ) id 1iRYQ2-00010d-Sd; Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:13:02 +0000 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Matthias Apitz Subject: Re: USB 3.0 disk to move files between FreeBSD and Windows Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:12:08 +0000 Message-ID: <5177675.8gLySxXtyI@curlew> In-Reply-To: <20191103174953.GA6186@c720-r342378> References: <20191103174953.GA6186@c720-r342378> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4766XK474Fz49VC X-Spamd-Bar: + Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk designates 95.142.156.253 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-Spamd-Result: default: False [1.34 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.44)[-0.443,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ptr]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[milibyte.co.uk]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[253.156.142.95.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.5.0]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(0.02)[0.018,0]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; CTE_CASE(0.50)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:198047, ipnet:95.142.156.0/22, country:GB]; MID_RHS_NOT_FQDN(0.50)[]; IP_SCORE(1.06)[ipnet: 95.142.156.0/22(3.31), asn: 198047(2.08), country: GB(-0.08)] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:13:06 -0000 On Sunday, 3 November 2019 17:49:53 GMT Matthias Apitz wrote: > I bought a new external USB 3.0 1.5 Marketing-Terrabytes disk meant to be > used in FreeBSD and Windows for file exchange/transport. The disk comes > formatted with NTFS, of course. > > What is the best option to gpart/format it for mounting the partition(s) > to FreeBSD and Windows. Best would be to have it even bootable with a > FreeBSD in one of its partitions. If you install sysutils/fusefs-ntfs you'll be able to mount and use the disk on your FreeBSD system. It wouldn't be bootable with FreeBSD though. -- Mike Clarke