From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 28 8:14:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from moutng0.schlund.de (moutng0.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1A3637B400 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 08:14:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from [195.20.224.219] (helo=mrvdom03.kundenserver.de) by moutng0.schlund.de with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #2) id 16VDp1-0002Xs-00; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:35:51 +0100 Received: from [217.1.114.59] (helo=pD901723B.dip.t-dialin.net) by mrvdom03.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 16VDp1-0001Ae-00; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:35:51 +0100 Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:36:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa To: Rogier Steehouder Cc: Norm , Subject: Re: installing FreeBSD along with Windows XP In-Reply-To: <20020128081808.A608@localhost> Message-ID: <20020128163120.B2826-100000@pukruppa.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Rogier Steehouder wrote: > On 27-01-2002 13:35 (-0500), Norm wrote: > > I have a new P4 1.8GHz with 512 MB RDRAM and 60GB HDD which I have > > split int two drives (C,D). I plan on using Drive C for Windows XP > > and Drive D for FreeBSD. > > 1) Can you tell me whether it is better to use NTFS file formatting or > > FAT32 for either or both drives? Pros and cons of using either file > > systems? > FreeBSD uses its own UFS/FFS filesystem. Windows cannot read that. I > know FreeBSD reads and writes FAT32, but probably not NTFS. My FreeBSD -STABLE can read Win2k's NTFS very well (# mount_ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt ) Are you sure it does not work with your release? Uli. *-----------------------------------* * Peter Ulrich Kruppa * * - Wuppertal - * * Germany * *-----------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message