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 <e...@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 <e...@shubes.net >> <mailto:e...@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? >> >> -- >> -Eric 'shubes' >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> <mailto: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 > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- 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