Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 18:15:06 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: Jean-Paul Natola <jnatola@familycareintl.org> Cc: 'Tim Daneliuk' <tundra@tundraware.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Accessing file from windows or to windows-CORRECTION Message-ID: <4BE44A9A.10807@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <AB2BC18AD166C948A0BC559E22CE9C9105DEC3B3@FCIEXCHANGE1.FCI> References: <AB2BC18AD166C948A0BC559E22CE9C9105DEC3B3@FCIEXCHANGE1.FCI>
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Jean-Paul Natola wrote: >> I'd be curious to know if it is still the case that ntfs writes are >> not reliable in that situation. There are times when doing this >> can be handy on a dual-boot laptop, for example. 'Anyone out there >> care to comment on the state of ntfs rw access? > > Sorry I was reading so much I go the commands mixed up, it's the mount_ntfs command I was quoting > > "The windows NT/2000/XP standard filesystem, NTFS, is tightly integrated with Microsoft's kernel. To write to an NTFS partition, you must have extensive knowledge of how the filesystem works. Unfortunately, since that information is not available from Microsoft, you can read NTFS partitions but writing may corrupt the partition. The mount command is mount_ntfs(8)." > > Note: Since Microsoft holds its filesystem interface so dear, and changes it regularly, don't count on this for frequent use. Using mount_ntfs can damage the filesystem > sysutils/fusefs-ntfs is supposed to have read/write for ntfs file systems. I used it a few times probably more than a year ago. It was mostly ok but I got some file corruption on big copies. The command to mount something is ntfs-3g if I remember rightly. To the OP the windows SSH client PuTTY (first result in google) includes a command line utility pscp.exe which works like scp. Good for grabbing files from your BSD box to your Windows box. Chris
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