yeah. the idea is just fine. unfortunately, there should be about 200 gb of files.
after all, it is a matter of proving that I could use my back up hdd and copy from it
files to ext3 one and play music and enjoy it and...
thank you for answer, and even more, good one.

Howdy all!
When I get my plug, I'd like to install sqeezeserver (music server) on it.
Files should be stored on usb hard drive. My plan is to make one partition
and format it to ext3. The very problem might be that I regularly use
freebsd as a desktop. Newer versions of ext3 tend to support inode as 256,
which is no-no on bsd. It handles inode 128 and cannot manipulate 256.
What is experience with formatting to ext3? How "vanilla" ubuntu 9.04
manages various inode types? Finally, could I expect any problem after
unmounting the drive on freebsd and mounting it on the plug? I suspect
fsck is needed (or not).
I could format to ext3 using knoppix live cd, but any file translation have to
do on my native bsd box.
Best regards

                                                               Zoran