Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:12:36 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: rob1940@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WD External Disc Drive Message-ID: <20091026111236.7ec852bb.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <aab0909a0910251833t4482bcfvcb09042cb17d1944@mail.gmail.com> References: <aab0909a0910251718q4dc26baeu7c0a452add98d783@mail.gmail.com> <4AE4EE38.4050609@otenet.gr> <aab0909a0910251833t4482bcfvcb09042cb17d1944@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:33:16 +1100, Rob Hurle <rob1940@gmail.com> wrote: > I need to transfer between > FreeBSD and Windows, both ways :-( Could you imagine to use "FAT" instead of "NTFS", or do you intendedly require features that are specific to "NTFS"? I found that "FAT" - in FreeBSD: msdosfs - is sufficient for transfer tasks. It doesn't require fuse, you have r/w by kernel means (refer to "man mount_msdosfs"). Of course, this would require new initialising of the disk. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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