Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 21:25:09 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: "GiL A. Virtucio" <gvirtucio@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Writing to a mounted NTFS drive Message-ID: <445EAC05.7060605@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <00a301c6723d$4c1146d0$5ac8a8c0@loui> References: <00a301c6723d$4c1146d0$5ac8a8c0@loui>
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GiL A. Virtucio wrote:
> Hi, I have a mounted an NTFS partition that is set as "rw" in fstab. I can
> read the data stored in the drive but I cannot store new files on that
> drive. Anybody here encountered this before? Or can anybody please
> suggest a way to make that drive writable?
>
Yes; I imagine that *everybody* who has tried this has encountered
this (or something similar) before...
If you RTF(riendly ;-)M, you'll see this:
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WRITING
There is limited writing ability. Limitations:
file must be nonresident and must not contain any sparces
(uninitialized areas); compressed files are also not supported.
The file name must not contain multibyte characters.
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A port exists (ntfsprogs) that *might* write NTFS a
tad better, but I'm not sure that it's at all guaranteed.
I'm certainly not going to do so ;-)
IIRC, when you look up "proprietary" at Wikipedia, NTFS
is a synonym. :-D
Kevin Kinsey
--
Lo! Men have become the tool of their tools.
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