USB 3.0 disk to move files between FreeBSD and Windows

thor thor at irk.ru
Mon Nov 4 12:06:44 UTC 2019


I sincerely believe that the best variant is 
/usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-exfat. It's supported well both under the 
FreeBSD and Abomination, and exfat is documented while NTFS isn't.

Of course, you lose the attributes but they are not needed for the purpose.

On 11/04/19 01:49, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I bought a new external USB 3.0 1.5 Marketing-Terrabytes disk meant to be used in FreeBSD and
> Windows for file exchange/transport. The disk comes formatted with NTFS,
> of course.
>
> What is the best option to gpart/format it for mounting the partition(s)
> to FreeBSD and Windows. Best would be to have it even bootable with a
> FreeBSD in one of its partitions.
>
> Thanks
>
> 	matthias
>



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