On 5/26/06, Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakheshster@gmail.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately, ffsdrv is read-only.
>
> I suppose the best option is to use ext2fs. Both NetBSD and Windows
> can read-write ext2fs (Windows needs the ext2fsd driver btw). The only
> concern I would have with such an option is that ext2fs is not native
> to NetBSD or Windows -- so how good is the ext2fs read-write code in
> both OSes? That said, I guess I'd stick on with this option anyways.
>
> I am not sure if there's a way to make an ext2fs partition through
> NetBSD though. I dont see any command that goes "newfs_ext2fs" ... (I
> am not at my NetBSD machine, so am just checking the man-pages for any
> commands with ext2fs in them. I could be wrong).

/usr/pkgsrc/sysutils/e2fsprogs

It's funny that it's a Linux filesystem that's the closest thing to
being universal.

Would be nice if there was some magnetic disk equivalent of UDF.

Andy