OT: most "universal" file system for 1TB external USB2 hard drive

RW fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com
Fri Aug 29 21:04:49 UTC 2008


On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:21:40 -0500
"Andrew Gould" <andrewlylegould at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:17 PM, RW <fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > There is also NTFS through ntfs-3g ,which is available for all of
> > the above (sysutils/fusefs-ntfs on FreeBSD). Having a native Windows
> > filesystem is sensible on a portable drive, and fat32 is not a great
> > filesystem.
> >
> > http://www.ntfs-3g.org
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> 
> 
> Great suggestion!
> 
> I have NTFS support compiled into the kernel.  Do you know if this
> conflicts with the usage of ntfs-3g?

I wouldn't have thought so, it uses the fuse kernel module, the rest is
in userland.


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