From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 30 00:50:15 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-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 27EF716A420 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:50:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nawcom@gmail.com) Received: from pproxy.gmail.com (pproxy.gmail.com [64.233.166.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1DDB43D48 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:50:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nawcom@gmail.com) Received: by pproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id b36so133436pyb for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:50:12 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=DXWdm7WdonOdV2U2MnIRklkI7aIRNPKfDetXVCBuhnsd5sMqbPWu16cURnf7noB3Ep2ffXWXgMKs9z40YMVBwRh/c7PZF/8JdRwjl213xxSbt5jfdL3ZjybtkqGeDvsBCN8tvyp1uOLqMdLZFIYKgo/TlYEi9Z+xohBfLt+cZdA= Received: by 10.35.131.4 with SMTP id i4mr308539pyn; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:43:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.35.62.17 with HTTP; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:43:50 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:43:50 -0500 From: nawcom To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20060328171656.Y33511@border.crystalsphere.multiverse> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20060328232352.GA2765@dagobah.vindaloo.com> <20060328171656.Y33511@border.crystalsphere.multiverse> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Removable drives 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: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:50:15 -0000 One of the big changes from moving from the Linux kernel to BSD is the device naming system, so I have pretty much gotten the habit of manually mounting/umounting when needed. For the filesystem question, I usually use ext2- compatible with linux, bsd= , and write support on a msft operating system is slowly reaching a stable state. I dojn't believe darwin has ext2/3 support by default, but i might m= e wrong. the only issues i've had with fat32 are naming limitations, its 4gb limitation, and setting file ownerships. On 3/28/06, Luke Dean wrote: > > > > On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: > > > I have a question to the community about removable drives, pendrives > > and usb and firewire attached hard drives. I'm just wondering how > > people are dealing with them in FreeBSD. I don't have any operational > > problems with them. I'm just wondering if I'm doing things the hard > > way. > > > > First Question: Which filesystem are people using on usb flash drives > > and removable hard drives? I'm using a mixture of ufs2, ext2, and > > msdos. I'm using ufs2 because I'm also using cfs to encrypt the > > contents and although I haven't tested this, I'm fairly certain cfs > > want's semantics that aren't in the msdos filesystem. > > I use msdosfs because I use my portable devices with MS Windows systems > and digital cameras frequently, and I need compatibility more than > anything else. > > > Second Question: Are most people using vfs_usermount=3D1? I'm using the > > automounter. It's a little bit more work to setup but I'm using a > > laptop and since I've started to use the automounter the number of > > times that I've had to fsck my removable drive because I've suspended > > my laptop with a pendrive still attached and mounted has been reduced > > incredibly. > _______________________________________________ > 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" > -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safet= y deserve neither liberty nor safety." --- Benjamin Franklin