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Date:      Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:01:12 -0400
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        cparker@member.fsf.org
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NTFS Question
Message-ID:  <3EAFC918.5060701@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030430123121.28432.qmail@web40611.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20030430123121.28432.qmail@web40611.mail.yahoo.com>

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Christopher Parker wrote:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_ntfs&sektion=8
> 
> Is the documentation located here still relevant? I am trying to create  a 50 GB partition in
> Windows 2000 in the FAT32 filesystem format. It's not working so far, even if I use a Windows 98
> or ME disk to do so. So, it looks like I may have to use NTFS with Windows 2000.
> 
> Does FreeBSD still have limitations when accessing the NTFS filesystem? I want to be able to
> access the data on my WIN2K partition, as well as modify it if need be, from FreeBSD and from
> GNU/Linux.

As far as I know that document is still accurate.

Why don't you make a 55G NTFS partition for Win2k and a 5G FAT partition that
can be shared between all OSes?

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com



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