From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 12 1:59:43 2002 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 D186D37B401 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 01:59:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cmsoutbound.mx.net (cmsrelay02.mx.net [165.212.11.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 10FC843EA3 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 01:59:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from liquid_net@usa.net) Received: from cmsapps01.cms.usa.net (HELO cmsoutbound.mx.net) (165.212.11.136) by cmsoutbound.mx.net with SMTP; 12 Oct 2002 08:59:39 -0000 Received: from phobos [4.34.157.28] by cmsapps01.cms.usa.net (ASMTP/liquid_net@usa.net) via mtad (CM.1201.1.04A) with ESMTP id 676gJLi8l0288Msa; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 08:59:37 GMT Reply-To: From: "Octavian Hornoiu" To: Subject: RE: Regarding NTFS with FreeBSD Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 02:00:28 -0700 Message-ID: <000601c271cd$d09e60f0$1c9d2204@phobos> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4024 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal 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 As far as I know... There are only a small handful of actual products that can write to NTFS partitions and, even then, only with minimal functionality. There are a lot of issues involved in writing to NTFS partitions and I remember reading an article in which the Linux developer who wrote one of the original drivers to read NTFS was quoted as saying that it would not happen anytime soon. Microsoft is great at making things very obscure and hard to inter-operate with and they have changed the NTFS structure several times, most notably with the change from NT4 to windows 2000. There is one small program that can write to NTFS partitions that I know of but only onto files that are already existing and never exceeding the original size of the file... It's called NTFS DOS and, like the name implies, it only works as a "rescue" type of option for boot diskettes. Sorry to dissapoint but I've looked into this option multiple times as I work at a place with many NT servers and I've needed to mount them under Unix before. Octavian -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Cliff Sarginson Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 1:36 AM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regarding NTFS with FreeBSD On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 07:27:09PM -0400, Matt Garcia wrote: > HI, Yes again i have another question. > > I finally upgraded from 4.5-stable to 4.7-stable the > problem was a spelling error :) > > my next question is; if 4.7-STABLE allows freebsd to > have write permissions with a mounted NTFS drive. I cannot see anywhere where it says it does not, but I should think the likeliness is 0. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands Email: cls@raggedclown.net Tel : +31 (0)10 4764595 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