Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 02:59:13 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: Stan Brown <stanb@awod.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Supporetd filesystesm? Message-ID: <36BD0181.24BB0702@uk.radan.com> References: <199902070048.TAA27971@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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"Crist J. Clark" wrote: > > Stan Brown wrote, > > i am preparing to set up amchine to boot FreeBSD, Windows98, and NT. I > > intendt to have a fairly latge common disk slice. So the question si > > which of the folowing filesystems can FreeBSD read/write? > > > > FAT32 > > FAT16 > > All of the FATxx's are supported by enabling the MSDOSFS option in the > kernel (enabled by default). All can do read/writes. FreeBSD will > determine whether a mounted MSDOS filesystem is 16 or 32 on its > own; it is transparent to the user. > > > NTFS > > At present, I believe there is a read-only module for NTFS. See, > > http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov/ntfs_install.html > You need to be careful though. My doc is 2.2.x specific, the original poster is running 3.0. The source for 3.x is available from the same place but I can't guarantee that it's built the same way. BTW, I checked the URL of the source yesterday and there was a message saying that it had been added to the 3.x source tree :-) > > Thanks. > > > > Oh BTW it will be a 3.0 FreebSD machine, if that matters. > > These all work on 3.x and 2.2.x. > > IMHO, you are best off with one of the FAT's. I do not believe Win98 > can handle NTFS can it? > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Q. How many Software Engineers does it take to change a light bulb? A. None. It's a hardware problem FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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