From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 24 06:12:00 2004 Return-Path: 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 8FB7B16A4CE for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 06:12:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from levanto.mail.adnap.net.au (levanto.mail.adnap.net.au [203.6.132.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4341943D31 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 06:12:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bastill@adam.com.au) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (202-6-154-250.ip.adam.com.au [202.6.154.250]) by levanto.mail.adnap.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 001AB609A for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:40:41 +1030 (CST) From: Brian Astill To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:41:47 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <003501c4e842$2f46c830$2a64015a@apise6e37e23bb> <200412230809.31238.bastill@adam.com.au> <41CAD2A0.1070806@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <41CAD2A0.1070806@infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200412241641.47130.bastill@adam.com.au> Subject: Re: Explore FreeBSD filesystem under Windows? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 06:12:00 -0000 On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 09:13 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Ah.  A crucial bit of information that was missing from the original > post.  Standard practice in that case is to create a partition on the > system with a filesystem that both OSes can read and write.  Between > Windows and FreeBSD that boils down to msdosfs, or in Windows-speak > FAT32. (FAT12 and FAT16 are also supported, but why on earth would > you want to use them if FAT32 works?) Sounds fine - BUT! M$ being M$ even different versions of Windoze cannot read different M$ files. eg WinNT cannot read FAT32. The NTFS in XP is different from that in WinNT. Other versions of Windoze cannot read either of the NTFS versions. The only "universal" is FAT16, which limits you to 2G partitions. So ... if your flavour of Windoze can read FAT32, a FAT32 partition is a very good idea because all the commonly-available unices can read it as well. If it can't ... the options aren't so good. I'd think ext2 would be the only workable alternative to FAT16, but neither is desirable. BTW, I haven't found one, but does anyone have a way to make WinNT read FAT32? -- Regards, Brian sos-sa.org.au