On 5/26/06, Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
> I'm contemplating adding a large, removable (USB) disk to some systems,
> to hold (legal) MP3s.  The question is what file system to use.
>
> I can clearly use FFS, but that's NetBSD-only; I couldn't share the drive
> with a Windows box.  FAT32 is, as I recall, size-limited; certainly,
> Windows won't even format a large partition that way.  NetBSD can't write
> NTFS file systems.  Are there other options?

NetBSD and Windows can use ext2/3. There is a driver (don't remember
where, sourceforge I think) that allows an ext2 or ext3 filesystem to
be mounted in Windows. Probably only read only though. At least,
that's all I used it for. Seemed to work OK.

Wonder if UDF is the answer... I'm totally ignorant in that regard though.

Andy