Removable drives

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One of the big changes from moving from the Linux kernel to BSD is the
device naming system, so I have pretty much gotten the habit of manually
mounting/umounting when needed.

For the filesystem question, I usually use ext2- compatible with linux, bsd,
and write support on a msft operating system is slowly reaching a stable
state. I dojn't believe darwin has ext2/3 support by default, but i might me
wrong. the only issues i've had with fat32 are naming limitations, its 4gb
limitation, and setting file ownerships.



On 3/28/06, Luke Dean <LukeD at pobox.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote:
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> > I have a question to the community about removable drives, pendrives
> > and usb and firewire attached hard drives. I'm just wondering how
> > people are dealing with them in FreeBSD. I don't have any operational
> > problems with them. I'm just wondering if I'm doing things the hard
> > way.
> >
> > First Question: Which filesystem are people using on usb flash drives
> > and removable hard drives? I'm using a mixture of ufs2, ext2, and
> > msdos. I'm using ufs2 because I'm also using cfs to encrypt the
> > contents and although I haven't tested this, I'm fairly certain cfs
> > want's semantics that aren't in the msdos filesystem.
>
> I use msdosfs because I use my portable devices with MS Windows systems
> and digital cameras frequently, and I need compatibility more than
> anything else.
>
> > Second Question: Are most people using vfs_usermount=1? I'm using the
> > automounter. It's a little bit more work to setup but I'm using a
> > laptop and since I've started to use the automounter the number of
> > times that I've had to fsck my removable drive because I've suspended
> > my laptop with a pendrive still attached and mounted has been reduced
> > incredibly.
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