From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 1 20:59:36 2010 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 B99E01065672 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2010 20:59:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd.user@seibercom.net) Received: from mail-gx0-f182.google.com (mail-gx0-f182.google.com [209.85.161.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 697218FC13 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2010 20:59:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk8 with SMTP id 8so3922151gxk.13 for ; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 12:59:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.151.26.1 with SMTP id d1mr3151026ybj.295.1291237173719; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 12:59:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from scorpio.seibercom.net (cpe-071-077-039-064.nc.res.rr.com [71.77.39.64]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q31sm239054yba.18.2010.12.01.12.59.32 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 01 Dec 2010 12:59:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from scorpio (zeus [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: FreeBSD.user@scorpio.seibercom.net) by scorpio.seibercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 54164E54856 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2010 15:59:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 15:59:30 -0500 From: Jerry To: FreeBSD Message-ID: <20101201155930.67f30a2b@scorpio> In-Reply-To: References: <20101201170000.0305126f@core.draftnet> <20101201131025.5d192c65@scorpio> Organization: seibercom.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.7 (GTK+ 2.22.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.1) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAJFBMVEUeH4oAAI3//v8LDHmw s8gyNZ/b3ej7+vn+/v////+PjIc8Plaj/TnQAAACNElEQVQ4jaXUvW/aQBQAcFtKGZLFT+YY 3D1SR9SKoRMncE3IggU4kicGi1JYOgQwyYrgnLlSzhsoNkTuVJEp+ef6ztiAoV3aJ+QPfufn s987S/5fQvoXYPjztmfc514Ks+5JfGUCfrzt4+VabF+jwEV4DGEXN8N4p16sPLxHX07/V3qX yfF5D2H6K4V8j9NkyAphvkjBembD5PDFk3zeTzP1jcksyaV9w+d4ELmUoOp8N2p8uQVyhTAT uawnKNH2mie5lJp48mscUcbJUvg0mR6APwAoye9AMyWozY4gAh0vcxa5FJ4TKCuODESWtfkB 8AEQSupUXNIYH8FSC2w8X3eMBNbbVJpJ7MgECO5yJ9DUEWCYkzNAlsRsgwLQ1GkWqELbkDOh 1bUzoHagYkNh9MXlK/MQoA42gTxz2bhPM2DJedm8MZx6cNfJgEZJ5cmwPp5FZ/Ye8O2qTrFV dgOrHkZRBoheJiGrRquwAhnQ6GeTePPerWVmQelAQ5lwNqtvQd2lcooAV74/zR1BIRS19fy5 ru+B/8ReW9pYKMPjt609zDaitHHTGOO+Zu7gHvsKE7XbeE1QVuJXomIFuZgUJdXQdhpqEELc /e8RLjfi+cQ01yMdWot8UcCVxEWHEkcUrsDGuhaIEoM9kfgAR6jxHcmEV7tNURAl8KTHN9iF McKGFHGO62O62UMpbmlVuogQ7ndL8zXCiLeBy3xpfrqaXS/+AHDG4o8AvhuPeezD/3xL/hy/ Adjlg2odglF2AAAAAElFTkSuQmCC Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: USB Thumb Drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:59:36 -0000 On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 12:36:43 -0600 Ryan Coleman articulated: > As the page says, it's READ ONLY in Linux... kinda pathetic. Thanks, > Microsoft, for changing things AGAIN so you cannot be shared safely > with others. First of all, exFAT is a major improvement over FAT32 for Flash drives. The fact that it is apparently only READ ONLY in a Linux environment has nothing to do with Microsoft but rather with the FOSS community at large. They could either purchase a license, which of course they won't; or they could reverse engineer a driver for it. There is also this link on the page: http://www.tuxera.com/products/exfat-for-embedded-systems/ Perhaps that might be of assistance. In any case, I find using removable drives far easier on a Microsoft machine anyway