Subject: Re: file systems for large, removable drives?
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Carl Brewer <carl@bl.echidna.id.au>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/27/2006 10:32:58
Carl Brewer wrote:
> Steven M. Bellovin 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?
>
> There's an FFS driver for billgatesware around somewhere from memory.
yep, here it is
http://ffsdrv.sourceforge.net/