From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 2 06:13:19 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA20927 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 06:13:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA20917; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 06:13:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.56.193]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA5FDF; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 15:12:52 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <368E1EFB.918A2BF7@uk.radan.com> Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 15:19:57 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Mark Ovens Subject: RE: Accessing NTFS partitions Cc: freebsd-uk-users , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message