From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 13 14:48:54 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54E141065674 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:48:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f171.google.com (mail-ew0-f171.google.com [209.85.219.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0FE78FC1D for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:48:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@googlemail.com) Received: by ewy19 with SMTP id 19so1992264ewy.43 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:48:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:reply-to:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Mr0s7UCyIWdZP0yaR+wNVYY7GZigE5DS/PGvTHLjYNs=; b=tHkWTZyppyD2upBDc8lHNQ/OrbC7vkWl8tw+7UDgmnjYJ93FvZ1ZZGefn2KGYSStP8 A8VxiB3JOWKpU6jqXO6wDSR6Y2jG5qQJGwiJUtMuQUiFKMX6Kb/jXtYmFKq5RwlVf8Em Q8K2WEStwVAxKH4pbPj37Vpi6WdiRW909NFWY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=GOrmID8nUdYxOYXMvvpmivxN+gE4tq7UIgHpXrhWbLN1i5GbaEmx3eZEsKapoKvEjZ F/g8ryT4CvCjmCft/OAdU7vDd4UGotNifob0edFZ6A6mfS/GqPY7pnoGAiECv7QJI1U8 pyfd8YmuiNXCqSkGqaoQNr9YR1yt/Ym9DONdE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.210.41.14 with SMTP id o14mr2021897ebo.83.1239634132194; Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:48:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <49DFDD0B.9040602@janh.de> <49E07EB1.8090701@janh.de> From: Chris Rees Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:48:37 +0100 Message-ID: To: Tsu-Fan Cheng , FreeBSD Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Subject: Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: utisoft@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:48:54 -0000 2009/4/13 Tsu-Fan Cheng : > Hi, > =A0 =A0correct me if I am wrong, but is it true that ntfsprogs is the > only port that comes with formating disk into NTFS system? because > days ago I also had this problem with my friend's extra USB 1T HD, I > had to use my windows laptop to do the job. thanks!! > > > TFC > NTFS is one of the 'crown jewels' at Microsoft, who consider the idea of sharing ideas despicable. The only way to get information about it is to reverse-engineer the format, which is such a bugger that not many people are interested enough in doing. Ntfsprogs is the only tool (AFAIK) that can do that. Read Jan's part though http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3D1743061+0+archive/2009/freeb= sd-questions/20090412.freebsd-questions Sorry, Chris --=20 A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?