A day before FreeBSD 6.0 was installed we hooked up a new 320 GB Western Digital external USB hard drive. This puppy came FAT32 preformatted but I don’t like FAT so quickly re-formatted to NTFS (not thinking about the fact that a n*x OS might not really like this…
However, I was able to mount it straightaway (hotswapping seems to work great) and now can get to my data from both Windows and FreeBSD. Apparently there’s only limited write-support in the FreeBSD NTFS driver so getting stuff from my FreeBSD partitions to the external hard drive might pose problems. Even though, I’m pretty delighted by the fact that I could get to old my old data so easily.