From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 21:54:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C51516A4DB for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:54:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A786143D2F for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:54:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:51:44 -0600 Message-ID: <41ACEC38.9070904@daleco.biz> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:55:04 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041023 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Smith References: <41ACBECF.6040000@adelphia.net> <41ACCAF5.6090403@gautherot.net> <41ACCDD5.9080407@adelphia.net> In-Reply-To: <41ACCDD5.9080407@adelphia.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Nov 2004 21:51:45.0090 (UTC) FILETIME=[C8CE2A20:01C4D726] cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org cc: Olivier Gautherot Subject: Re: writable file system for windows X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:54:51 -0000 Kevin Smith wrote: > Hi-- My question is really directed at which type of file system I > should > choose for the shared area (bsd/windows) when I do the partitioning, > rather than access. I seem to be able to mount NTFS partitions and > read them, but my understanding is that they are unsafe to write to > from bsd. At least on Linux this is the case. I want to be able to > write > files from bsd and read them in windows. The ext2fs system seems like > one way, but I was hoping that I could use a native windows/dos file > system > that would not require any special mounting on the windows side. > > -K > > > Olivier Gautherot wrote: > >> If you have no restrictions regarding ACL, this is the quickest way >> to do so. >> >> You can also create an ext2fs file system, that can be mounted >> read-only under Windows using Cygwin ;-) >> >> Cheers >> Olivier > Kevin, I don't *think*, (but am having a little trouble verifying) that mount_msdosfs(8) will have any trouble with FAT 32; I know I've read 'em; can't remember whether I had to write 'em or not (I stick 'em in a FBSD box to backup before "flattening" winboxen). I am sure FAT (FAT16?) would be OK. Maybe Olivier or someone else can say. [ BTW, I think he was simply giving options, not suggesting that ext2fs would be the best way. ] I did a small bit of perusal of the CVS commit logs and the source for the mount utilities in question, but it's a good bit over my head --- I can't determine (other than reading the manpage) exactly how dangerous it would be, (heck, I've not even figured out exactly how they do it *at all*) but I agree that it seems risky to try it with NTFS based on what we can see. Is there any way to try it as FAT32? Like I said, I'm *pretty* sure I've done this often. Kevin Kinsey