I would use the drive under FreeBSD and mount it over the
network using
samba. Physically moving drives makes little sense when you
can share the
drive over a network.
-Derek
At 05:08 PM 12/31/2006, Keith Beattie wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I recently picked up a big 700G external USB/Firewire
Seagate drive with the
>hopes of using it to store my growing collection of
music, photos, etc.
>currently spread across several different machines (all
with nearly full
>discs). My hope is that I could use a single file
system on this drive
>which could then be plugged into any of these machines
which run FreeBSD, OS
>X, or WinXP.
>
>The disc came formatted FAT32, which FreeBSD didn't like
("too big" was the
>error when mounting). Formatting it UFS on OS X, showed
that Apple's notion
>of UFS differs significantly from FreeBSD's notion of
UFS. Formatting it
>under FreeBSD, likewise, leaves it only usable there.
>
>Is there a file system which will work for a drive this
size on at least
>FreeBSD and OS X? It appears that HFS+ is a
possibility, but I'm concerned
>that the support for that file system under FreeBSD is
not current. What
>are people's experiences here? Is it perhaps better to
punt on the idea of
>moving the drive about and go with a NAS-like solution
running NFS/Samba and
>such on the FreeBSD box?
>
>TIA,
>ksb
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