From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 23 16:09:12 2003 Return-Path: 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 D44AA16A4CE for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 16:09:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from swin.edu.au (c3p0.cc.swin.edu.au [136.186.1.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BF3443FDF for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 16:09:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au) Received: from pvdbergen.caia.swin.edu.au (pvdbergen.caia.swin.edu.au [136.186.229.26]) by swin.edu.au (8.9.3p2-20030918/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA1043404 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:09:10 +1100 (EST) From: paul van den bergen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:09:09 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311241109.09724.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> Subject: mounting windows FS questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 00:09:13 -0000 Hi all, I have a dual boot machine.... Win2k + BSD... obviously I can mount the windows partition under BSD. can I mount the BSD partition(s) under windows? I have been told that writing to the windows partition from BSD is kinda dubious. why is this? is it possible to work around this? -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au IM:bulwynkl2002 "And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made." Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824