Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 15:19:57 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> Cc: freebsd-uk-users <freebsd-users@freebsd-uk.eu.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Accessing NTFS partitions Message-ID: <XFMail.990102151957.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <368E1EFB.918A2BF7@uk.radan.com>
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On 02-Jan-99 Mark Ovens wrote: > Although this is not a question, I've CC:'d this to -questions because > of it's technical nature and because there are a lot of questions asked > here about running FreeBSD and Win* on the same box so people may find > it useful. True... Especially with regard to file-sharing. > Hidden away on freebsd.org there is a link to a Russian University > website (http://iclub.nsu.ru/~semen/ntfs/ntfs.html) which has an NTFS > driver for FreeBSD. The latest version (ntfs-releng22-0.9beta.tgz) > works for 2.2.x and 3.x. Heh, hidden away? He has posted to the list a few times =) > There are a few points to note about using this driver: > > You cannot build everything with a single ``make''. True, but that has its reasons. > At the moment the driver is read-only :-(, but the author, Ustimenko > Semen, is planning to develop it to be read/write :-). Don't forget to > mount it read-only (use the ``ro'' option in /etc/fstab). Yeah, but both he and I never found any documentation regarding writing to NTFS drives since MS is reluctant to hand out specs. > If you think you need NTFS access I hope the above is of use to you. I > will try and put together a step-by-step FAQ/HowTo over the next few > days. The driver is however set up in a way that allows easy integration into the sourcetree... And from what I used of it, it was rock stable... --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Life is the only Pain asmodai(at)wxs.nl we endeavour... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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