From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 12 21:16:33 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 CCA4437B401 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 21:16:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from serv1.wallnet.com (server1.wallnet.com [208.225.162.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29B9543E8A for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 21:16:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by serv1.wallnet.com (8.11.5/8.11.5) id g9D4GU147673; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 00:16:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com) Received: from localhost (timothyk@localhost) by serv1.wallnet.com (8.11.5/8.11.5av) with ESMTP id g9D4GSX47665; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 00:16:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com) X-Authentication-Warning: serv1.wallnet.com: timothyk owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 00:16:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Kellers To: Octavian Hornoiu Cc: Subject: RE: Regarding NTFS with FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <000601c271cd$d09e60f0$1c9d2204@phobos> Message-ID: <20021013001513.F46440-100000@serv1.wallnet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 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 Don't forget mount_smbfs; I use3 it to write to ntfs file systems all the time after I've mounted them in FreeBSD man mount_smbfs is your friend. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Octavian Hornoiu wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message