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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:18:16 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Mounting XP partition
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Jerry McAllister said:
>>
>> Hi everyone, me again :)
>>
>> I have mounted a ntfs(WinXP) partition on my freebsd box, but i am
>> unable to write anything to it?
>
> My understanding is that is the current state of ntfs support.
> You can read from, but not write to ntfs slices.  I don't know
> if writing ability is being worked on.
>
>

You can write to... smbfs allows full rw capability.  I run a backup job
on my linux/freebsd servers every night and back the resultant tars up on
my windows xp box via smbfs mount.  Works like a charm.

Anthony



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