Cross Platform Filesystems

Eric Shubert ejs at shubes.net
Mon Jan 4 17:30:43 MST 2010


I don't know of a way that you can share devices on a USB connection. If 
you can, it's news to me (which is entirely possible).

I think you'll need a server of some sort which 'owns' the device, and 
shares it via some mechanism such as ntfs or samba.

Eric Cope wrote:
> USB 2.0.
> 
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net 
> <mailto:ejs at shubes.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Eric Cope wrote:
>      > Hello all,
>      > I recently bought a 1TB external hard drive. My plan is to be able to
>      > connect it to my Mac, my Windows Machines, my Linux machine and my
>      > FreeBSD machine. I searched for a cross platform filesystem and only
>      > found FAT32. That does not seem like a good option. Can anyone
>     recommend
>      > a preferrably journaled filesystem that is cross platform? Or at
>     least
>      > provide a way for it to be cross platform?
>      > Thanks!
>      > Eric
>      >
> 
>     Which type of connection are you planning to use?
> 
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