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Date:      Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:12:36 +0100
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        rob1940@gmail.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: WD External Disc Drive
Message-ID:  <20091026111236.7ec852bb.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:33:16 +1100, Rob Hurle <rob1940@gmail.com> wrote:
> I need to transfer between
> FreeBSD and Windows, both ways :-(

Could you imagine to use "FAT" instead of "NTFS", or do you
intendedly require features that are specific to "NTFS"?
I found that "FAT" - in FreeBSD: msdosfs - is sufficient
for transfer tasks. It doesn't require fuse, you have r/w
by kernel means (refer to "man mount_msdosfs"). Of course,
this would require new initialising of the disk.


-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...



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