From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 7 3:14:38 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 E73FA37B401 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 03:14:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from post-20.mail.nl.demon.net (post-20.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B70143E9C for ; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 03:14:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cls@raggedclown.net) Received: from [212.238.197.102] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-20.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18Kcup-0002zm-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 07 Dec 2002 11:14:35 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id BD27EF01 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 12:14:45 +0100 (CET) Received: from willow.raggedclown.net (willow.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.10]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id 735D6BFC for ; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 12:14:35 +0100 (CET) Received: by willow.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [willow], from userid 1009) id 62D34225CC; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 12:14:24 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 12:14:24 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NTFS with Wine and VMware? Message-ID: <20021207111424.GA1684@raggedclown.net> References: <3DED78F5.1060304@attbi.com> <1253466124.20021207105836@dds.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1253466124.20021207105836@dds.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre8 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 On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 10:58:36AM +0100, Alex wrote: > > Dear/Beste David, > > Wednesday, December 4, 2002, 4:39:33 AM, you wrote: > > > If i have a dual boot system of Win2k and FreeBSD at which the Win2k is > > on a NTFS partition will I beable to use Wine and VMWare with this > > win2k? or does the partition have to be FAT or FAT32? > > > Dave > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > There is a NTFS reader, but i think the work on the NTFS writer is > still in progress. You can try NTFS and see if it works for you. The > safe bet would be to use FAT or FAT32. > Of course there is the performance price to pay with this, NTFS versus FAT32, to bear in mind. But I wouldn't trust write-enabling an NTFS file system. I have serious doubts whether NTFS on NT, 2000 and XP is the *same* from an interface perspective. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message