Cross Platform Filesystems

[Eric Cope]

One system at a time. Thanks for the clarification.
Eric

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net> wrote:

> Are you talking about sharing concurrently, or simply using the drive on
> one system at a time? (I was thinking concurrently)
>
> Stephen wrote:
> > This keeps poping up, and the only solution is install a a filesystem
> > that all your OS's can talk to. Difficulty in this Fat32 is
> > technically the only one and even still it is not FOSS.
> >
> > however i know there is a windows driver for ext2/3 so you can use
> > that as your Filesystem. i do not know about MAC on this regard.
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net> wrote:
> >> 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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