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Date:      Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:36:08 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
To:        Rogier Steehouder <r.j.s@gmx.net>
Cc:        Norm <nrichard47@telus.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: installing FreeBSD along with Windows XP
Message-ID:  <20020128163120.B2826-100000@pukruppa.de>
In-Reply-To: <20020128081808.A608@localhost>

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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.


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