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@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@shubes.net
>>> <mailto:ejs@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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