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From: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com>
Subject: Re: docs/78138: Error in pre-installation section of installation
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The following reply was made to PR docs/78138; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com>
To: "Devon H. O'Dell " <dodell@offmyserver.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/78138: Error in pre-installation section of installation chapter
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:36:30 -0800

 It is actually in the ports tree as sysutils/ntfsprogs.  I've got a
 patch to add it to the livecd but I think it's moot because there is
 only space on DVDs.  I'll run a build and see what kind of
 dependencies the package pulls in.
 
 	     - Murray
 
 On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 05:16:54PM +0100, Devon H. O'Dell  wrote:
 > On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 07:56:11AM -0800, Murray Stokely wrote:
 > > Hi Devon, this is good information but I'd like to describe a more
 > > FreeBSD friendly way of doing this.  Can we provide ntfsresize on a
 > > FreeBSD live CD?
 > > 
 > > 	- Murray
 > 
 > I don't think so. The ntfsresize program is GPLed and relies heavily
 > on the Linux NTFS project code. I don't know enough about NTFS or 
 > VFS to be able to say that it wouldn't be portable, but I think that
 > there'd definitely be a lot of work involved.
 > 
 > Until then, I'm afraid there's not a better way. I'd do it, but it
 > will probably take a while for me to learn it and I've got other
 > priorities at the moment.
 > 
 > --Devon