Comments on: Seagate FreeAgent Desktop Makes Your Life More Difficult Than Easier http://rutsum.com/seagate-freeagent-desktop Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:24:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Apoorv Khatreja http://rutsum.com/seagate-freeagent-desktop/comment-page-1#comment-6792 Apoorv Khatreja Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:10:30 +0000 http://rutsum.com/?p=605#comment-6792 Ok, but even then the whole point of portability is defeated. I want to use this drive to carry around and get data from friends easily. That means if they don't have these utilities installed, I can't access my drive on their systems. FAT32 is the only FS that according to me, is universally supported with read/write capabilities. Ok, but even then the whole point of portability is defeated. I want to use this drive to carry around and get data from friends easily. That means if they don’t have these utilities installed, I can’t access my drive on their systems. FAT32 is the only FS that according to me, is universally supported with read/write capabilities.

]]> By: Ankur Banerjee http://rutsum.com/seagate-freeagent-desktop/comment-page-1#comment-6777 Ankur Banerjee Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:37:21 +0000 http://rutsum.com/?p=605#comment-6777 There's also a software for Windows called ext2fs which adds support for ext2/ext3 filesystems. (For ext3, it does this by mounting the ext3 partitions as ext2, a backward compatibility feature built into the filesystems.) There’s also a software for Windows called ext2fs which adds support for ext2/ext3 filesystems. (For ext3, it does this by mounting the ext3 partitions as ext2, a backward compatibility feature built into the filesystems.)

]]> By: Uncool Shitty http://rutsum.com/seagate-freeagent-desktop/comment-page-1#comment-6766 Uncool Shitty Sun, 28 Dec 2008 06:22:57 +0000 http://rutsum.com/?p=605#comment-6766 Here's some good news - you can add support for virtually any kind of file system to any UNIX computer (Linux, BSD, Mac, Solaris etc.) using FUSE. FUSE stands for Filesystem in Userspace, where the filesystem code runs in the user space rather than being chained to the kernel. Check out Wiki for more. Since FUSE doesn't modify your kernel, it's safe to use. Your OS is perfectly safe. Using FUSE you can run NSFS-3G easily on your Mac, and IMHO NTFS-3G is now a pretty stable NTFS implementation. You can also format a single small partition as FAT32 and add utilities like Paragon Partition Manager (preferably a portable version) so you can easily read Linux partitions. Then you can add support for Linux partitions to OSX via FUSE (ext3, reiser et al for FUSE are 100% stable). Format the rest of the drive with Reiser and have fun. Obviously, none of the above is likely to work :) Here’s some good news – you can add support for virtually any kind of file system to any UNIX computer (Linux, BSD, Mac, Solaris etc.) using FUSE. FUSE stands for Filesystem in Userspace, where the filesystem code runs in the user space rather than being chained to the kernel. Check out Wiki for more.

Since FUSE doesn’t modify your kernel, it’s safe to use. Your OS is perfectly safe. Using FUSE you can run NSFS-3G easily on your Mac, and IMHO NTFS-3G is now a pretty stable NTFS implementation.

You can also format a single small partition as FAT32 and add utilities like Paragon Partition Manager (preferably a portable version) so you can easily read Linux partitions. Then you can add support for Linux partitions to OSX via FUSE (ext3, reiser et al for FUSE are 100% stable). Format the rest of the drive with Reiser and have fun.

Obviously, none of the above is likely to work :)

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