From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 29 21:04:49 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7453F1065673 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:04:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+ZI=5618614d@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from mxout-03.mxes.net (mxout-03.mxes.net [216.86.168.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A6F18FC16 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:04:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+ZI=5618614d@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com. (unknown [87.81.140.128]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3006F23E49B for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:04:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:04:38 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080829220438.3d47165f@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: References: <20080823011722.1315394f@gumby.homeunix.com.> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: OT: most "universal" file system for 1TB external USB2 hard drive 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, 29 Aug 2008 21:04:49 -0000 On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:21:40 -0500 "Andrew Gould" wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:17 PM, RW > wrote: > > > > > There is also NTFS through ntfs-3g ,which is available for all of > > the above (sysutils/fusefs-ntfs on FreeBSD). Having a native Windows > > filesystem is sensible on a portable drive, and fat32 is not a great > > filesystem. > > > > http://www.ntfs-3g.org > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > Great suggestion! > > I have NTFS support compiled into the kernel. Do you know if this > conflicts with the usage of ntfs-3g? I wouldn't have thought so, it uses the fuse kernel module, the rest is in userland.