From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 10 0: 4: 2 2002 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 5F88837B401 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 00:04:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vectors.cx (manifold.vectors.cx [64.163.147.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F2E243E65 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 00:04:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: from vectors.cx (ba0d733fb8e96820f1cb6227ec11b86f@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g9A758ho057810; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 00:05:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: (from monkey@localhost) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9A758xQ057809; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 00:05:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 00:05:08 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger To: S Randall Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mounting an msdos volume? Message-ID: <20021010070508.GV81796@vectors.cx> References: <200210092357.28148.randalls@xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200210092357.28148.randalls@xmission.com> X-Editor: Vim 6.1 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> (10.09.2002 @ 2257 PST): S Randall said, in 0.4K: << > I am running a dual boot system. WinXP (NTFS) and freebsd 4.6.2 on a seperate > SCSI hard drive. Is there a way to mount the DOS hard drive/partition and > read and write files to that volume? I was able to do this in mandrake > linux. It was a link in my /mnt folder. you can read NTFS filesystems, but you can't write to them. if the NTFS drive is ad0, you can try putting: /dev/ad0s1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro 0 2 in your /etc/fstab you can test it out beforehand with: mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/ad0s1 /mnt/windows -Adam -- "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." -Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch" Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message