From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 06:26:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C26516A4CE for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 06:26:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from endif.cjb.net (65-101-229-205.dnvr.qwest.net [65.101.229.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F306143FDF for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 06:26:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from end@endif.cjb.net) Received: (qmail 11838 invoked from network); 19 Nov 2003 14:26:52 -0000 Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 Nov 2003 14:26:52 -0000 Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 07:26:52 -0700 From: Robin Schoonover To: George Theodo Message-Id: <20031119072652.12600b3f.end@endif.cjb.net> In-Reply-To: <20031119091029.20134.qmail@web41506.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20031119091029.20134.qmail@web41506.mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:26:57 -0000 On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 01:10:29 -0800 (PST), George Theodo wrote: > Hello all. I am using FreeBSD 5.1 for a couple of weeks now. My situation > is this, I have one hard disk with two partitions , one for WinXP and one > for FreeBSD where I boot each one of them. Also I have a second hard disk > with two partitions of WinXP. I am trying to administer WinXP from > FreeBSD but i have some difficulties. I mount without problem the NTFS > partitions but what happens is this: I can copy files from any NTFS > partition to the FreeBSD Partition , I cannot copy files from any NTFS > partition to another NTFS partition, I cannot copy files from FreeBSD > Partition to NTFS partition. I don't know what the problem is. > >From the mount_ntfs(8) man page: WRITING There is limited writing ability. Limitations: file must be nonresident and must not contain any sparces (uninitialized areas); compressed files are also not supported. [...] CAVEATS This utility is primarily used for read access to an NTFS volume. See the WRITING section for details about writing to an NTFS volume. So in other words, you should probably should not count on being able to write to an NTFS partition. -- Robin Schoonover (aka End) # # Ever notice that even the busiest people are never too busy to tell # you just how busy they are.