From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 12 13:49:23 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1696A16A49C for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:49:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsdlists@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.224]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4B3F13C448 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:49:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsdlists@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l8so641918nzf for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:49:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=oTf76b2Qr2BQXWvAhMXq6MyeC38XOFDlO09wTXOFE/s=; b=oCTCdO+2K+dtapCDJWywi4xkYe9jU26s3kZOO0FRNKMTBOmIBzigeqmSFbTKvLFZwVxi1Y0cx8zI86Vmkk8YQ1bh9JdZ3xOWJLBhcptOBKrZtbFSvhP8pXMUBLbik225Gqf7Ca4uh9phe6cmrWlZwcEx4EkWhhXshbsZ5c3QeSM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=d3LmVpdN3sA4Rn05IzcrBnjMmOAdcQeOFhjINzsErAgDrPOfzaYJjeBqpe+8j6lUDn9G9rfBSYth0I5ZHE0IY8yo5X5QCPDkIS++EBFfk0T7ujLsnvKbEN/OS0rq5G3S3/gVZkuhqxUOHwlm9p7wkxDj3nroZameHKlxH3T8oEg= Received: by 10.142.143.7 with SMTP id q7mr955154wfd.1192196961304; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:49:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.12.14 with HTTP; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:49:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <54db43990710120649s222eb064td2400db50a7b8e65@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:49:21 -0400 From: "Bob Johnson" To: "Monah Baki" In-Reply-To: <470F7545.5010808@cyberleo.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <3236.67.100.188.210.1192191787.squirrel@www.geekisp.com> <20071012085956.7d8faf2d.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <470F7545.5010808@cyberleo.net> Cc: CyberLeo Kitsana , Bill Moran , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 1 TB data copy X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:49:23 -0000 On 10/12/07, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: > Bill Moran wrote: > > In response to "Monah Baki" : > > I'm not completely up to speed with FreeBSD's NTFS support. Last I looked > > at it, it was experimental and there were warnings everywhere. I assume > > it's improved since then (~3 years ago) but can't say with authority. > > As I recall, the native FreeBSD NTFS support is read-only. However, the > NTFS-3g project has a mostly complete (and pretty safe) read/write > implementation as a FUSE program, which can be found in ports: > > sysutils/fusefs-ntfs > sysutils/ntfsprogs > FreeBSD NTFS is not read only, but there are restrictions on what it can write. To quote the man page: There is limited writing ability. Limitations: file must be nonresident and must not contain any sparses (uninitialized areas); compressed files are also not supported. The file name must not contain multibyte charac- ters. If your file name uses only ASCII characters, you will be probably be OK using mount_ntfs to write to an NTFS filesystem. I've used it for years, but mostly for reading files. The few times I've used it for writing, it worked fine. I think you are most likely to have problems if you use it to edit an existing file. - Bob