Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:44:44 +0200
From:      Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr>
To:        rob1940@gmail.com
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: WD External Disc Drive
Message-ID:  <4AE599BC.3090104@otenet.gr>
In-Reply-To: <aab0909a0910260437m1530fd8av7071fb45e638c75e@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <aab0909a0910251718q4dc26baeu7c0a452add98d783@mail.gmail.com>	<20091026110905.f802174a.freebsd@edvax.de> <aab0909a0910260437m1530fd8av7071fb45e638c75e@mail.gmail.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Rob Hurle wrote:
>
>
>   Thanks for your comments too, about use of the FAT32 file system.  I
> had thought about that, but the NTFS seemed to be a bit more universal
> - I'm not sure that FAT file systems are recognised by default on Macs
> (for example).
>
>   
FAT (and almost to the same extent, FAT32) are widely recognizable:
FreeBSD, Windows, Linux, OS X.
The most important limitation though is maximum file size (<=4GB).
Depending on your usage, FAT32 may or may not be appropriate because of
this.



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4AE599BC.3090104>