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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net>
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Subject: Re: Mounting Remote Fat & NTFS partions in FreeBSD 2.2.2
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On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Jonathan E. Lyons wrote:

> Is it possible to mount a remote Fat/NTFS partion in Freebsd 2.2.2?
> I've used samba to map BSD partions to my Win95/NT machines, but I'm
> wondering can samba map a remote Fat/NTFS volume under say /usr/home/?

NTFS partitions are not supported.

You can mount FAT (FAT16) partitions, though, by specifying the option '-t
msdos' to the mount command.  For instance:

mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /mnt

will bring on a DOS partition on the first IDE disk onto /mnt.  The slice
number may vary by disks.  Note you can also mount extended partitions by
using slice numbers >4.  The first logical disk would be /dev/wd0s5 in the
above example.

The man page mount_msdos(8) gives a warning which must be heeded to
prevent filesystem damage:

     If you see the warning:

     mountmsdosfs(): Warning: root directory is not a multiple of the
     clustersize in length

     then it is possible that writing to the MS-DOS filesystem would
produce corruption on the disk. This is a shortcoming in the code which
needs to be addressed. 

If you see this warning umount the disk immediately and do not attempt to
mount it again.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
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