From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 10 13:17:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.yumyumyum.org (dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.171.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F377C37B417 for ; Fri, 10 May 2002 13:17:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 8056 invoked from network); 10 May 2002 20:17:00 -0000 Received: from dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net (66.92.171.91) by dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net with SMTP; 10 May 2002 20:17:00 -0000 Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 16:17:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Culver To: jogegabsd Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NTFS read-only? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020510161607.D8033-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 FreeBSD can't write an NTFS partition. If you want to write a windows partition, I'd suggest using FAT32, even though FAT32 isn't that great, at least you'll be able to write to it from FreeBSD... Ken On Fri, 10 May 2002, jogegabsd wrote: > Is it true that FreeBSD can only read from an NTFS? > I'm setting up my XP partition in the /etc/fstab, Do you recommend to put > the > NTFS read-only? Or I can try Read-and-Write with no problemo? > > # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# > /dev/sd0s1 /winxp ntfs rw 0 0 > > thanks in advance > > Gerardo Amaya > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message