From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 10 21:05:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F0C816A9AF for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 21:05:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB04643D46 for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 21:05:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Fdvri-0003ii-5W for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 May 2006 23:05:02 +0200 Received: from r5j60.chello.upc.cz ([86.49.9.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 23:05:02 +0200 Received: from martinkov by r5j60.chello.upc.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 23:05:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: martinko Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 22:55:37 +0200 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <00a301c6723d$4c1146d0$5ac8a8c0@loui> <445EAC05.7060605@daleco.biz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: r5j60.chello.upc.cz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060506 SeaMonkey/1.0.1 In-Reply-To: <445EAC05.7060605@daleco.biz> Sender: news Subject: Re: Writing to a mounted NTFS drive 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: Wed, 10 May 2006 21:05:24 -0000 Kevin Kinsey wrote: > GiL A. Virtucio wrote: >> Hi, I have a mounted an NTFS partition that is set as "rw" in fstab. I >> can >> read the data stored in the drive but I cannot store new files on that >> drive. Anybody here encountered this before? Or can anybody please >> suggest a way to make that drive writable? >> > > Yes; I imagine that *everybody* who has tried this has encountered > this (or something similar) before... > > If you RTF(riendly ;-)M, you'll see this: > > ---------------------------------- > WRITING > There is limited writing ability. Limitations: > file must be nonresident and must not contain any sparces > (uninitialized areas); compressed files are also not supported. > The file name must not contain multibyte characters. > ---------------------------------- > > A port exists (ntfsprogs) that *might* write NTFS a > tad better, but I'm not sure that it's at all guaranteed. > I'm certainly not going to do so ;-) > > IIRC, when you look up "proprietary" at Wikipedia, NTFS > is a synonym. :-D > > Kevin Kinsey > quite interesting.. http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/