Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:56:23 +0200 From: Tomek CEDRO <tomek.cedro@gmail.com> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: Jon Radel <jon@radel.com>, FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Accessing UFS partitions from a Macbook Message-ID: <CAFYkXjkmW-WjAyx2QSjLo3ZLZCvDmWpvYbK7c95VHva=%2By_O7g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20170421011323.Q9330@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20170420233840.N9330@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <CAFYkXjmuWxi-8VCLCc-Ks_Ct=Ezw22z6nWb5QJiwB4CPrXbaRQ@mail.gmail.com> <20170421011323.Q9330@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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If you only intend to use external HDD with Mac use native HFS+ that would dramatically increase efficiency over FAT. You may also want to enable encryption that is not really affecting speed noticably and may protect data on a drive in case it gets stolen. If you want to work with large files and windoze you may prefer to use exFAT instead FAT32. That would allow large files on a large drive plus (limited) OS interoperability. Except you will really need to wait long for fsck to finish with *FAT. fsck part is important as macOS tries that on automount and you will see no drive after plugging it into USB port before its verified clean. True, FUSE gets the job done. And it sucks there is still no common filesystem to work well on all OS. UDF could be the candidate, but still most OS can NOT mkfs nor write including FreeBSD :-( Remember about native SSH on macOS (see System Preferences / Sharing / Remote Login) that could give you nice way to get the job done remotely :-) Best regards :-) Tomek -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
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