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 <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 >> > > > -- -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