Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 22:03:36 -0500 From: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> To: Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> Subject: Re: 8.2 prerelease, virtualbox, and windows guests that freeze... Message-ID: <AANLkTim=ePzR12E_XTiJ7dex6RKYuKk4vjRbS_NpNX_a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201102061925.28021.lobo@bsd.com.br> References: <4D4DF58D.2040506@computer.org> <4D4EC7CB.7010200@computer.org> <AANLkTikYF6S0CTj3vZs7SfOTxae8yRX63Lwq9B6u8qz6@mail.gmail.com> <201102061925.28021.lobo@bsd.com.br>
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Net, I've formatted drives as fat32 that were well over 4gb. In fact I have an external 120gb we datavault that's fat32 -- Sent from my Droid On Feb 6, 2011 5:25 PM, "Mario Lobo" <lobo@bsd.com.br> wrote: > On Sunday 06 February 2011 17:48:45 Chris Brennan wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org >wrote: >> > I realize NTFS on fBSD has been shaky in the past, but had heard it had >> > come a long way these days. It does seem to work well for all my >> > purposes, except these VMs. Had hoped NTFS was not the issue. >> >> ntfs/ntfs-3g is foolhardy at best in linux *and* fbsd ... it's trashed so >> many drives.partitions on me it's not even funny anymore... and I never did >> much w/ them except small stuff anyway. If you need to access the volumes >> in *nix/windows then why not FAT32 then? I use a FAT32 drive for my music >> so I can access it in any OS reliably and the drive is now 6+ years old. > > FAT32 max file size is 4Gig. > > > -- > Mario Lobo > http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br > FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99% winblows FREE)
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