One system at a time. Thanks for the clarification. Eric On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Eric Shubert 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 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 >>> > 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? > >>> > >>> -- > >>> -Eric 'shubes' > >>> > >>> --------------------------------------------------- > >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > >>> > >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Eric Cope > >>> http://cope-et-al.com > >>> > >> > >> -- > >> -Eric 'shubes' > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------- > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >> > > > > > > > > > -- > -Eric 'shubes' > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Eric Cope http://cope-et-al.com