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Date:      Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:48:37 +0100
From:      Chris Rees <utisoft@googlemail.com>
To:        Tsu-Fan Cheng <tfcheng@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?
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2009/4/13 Tsu-Fan Cheng <tfcheng@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
> =A0 =A0correct me if I am wrong, but is it true that ntfsprogs is the
> only port that comes with formating disk into NTFS system? because
> days ago I also had this problem with my friend's extra USB 1T HD, I
> had to use my windows laptop to do the job. thanks!!
>
>
> TFC
>

NTFS is one of the 'crown jewels' at Microsoft, who consider the idea
of sharing ideas despicable. The only way to get information about it
is to reverse-engineer the format, which is such a bugger that not
many people are interested enough in doing. Ntfsprogs is the only tool
(AFAIK) that can do that.

Read Jan's part though
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3D1743061+0+archive/2009/freeb=
sd-questions/20090412.freebsd-questions

Sorry,

Chris

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