Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:17:03 -0600 From: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: Roman Kurakin <rik@inse.ru> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, babkin@users.sf.net Subject: Re: NTFS write support Message-ID: <20060213211703.6ec79399@vixen42.vulpes> In-Reply-To: <43F04891.5030208@inse.ru> References: <43EFD5A0.83BB82C4@verizon.net> <43F04891.5030208@inse.ru>
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On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:51:29 +0300 Roman Kurakin <rik@inse.ru> wrote: > Sergey Babkin: > > >Hi, > > > >I've finally got Win XP as the second OS on my mahcine. The next > >thing I've found is that NTFS support still seems to be read-only, > >and it does not look like anybody is actively working on it. > >So adding the NTFS write support looks like an interesting > >project to undertake. > > > >Just in case, if anybody working on it already, please let me know. > >Any kinds of ready pointers to the good docs would be welcome. > >Or to the existing implementations too (Linux?). > > > IIRC Linux has write support but code marked as "NEW" and thus not > stable. As for me, I solved that problem by setting up FreeBSD and > Win on separate machines. I've done this after interference between > ntloader and sysinstall. I found a nice fix to be using partition magic, converting it to fat32, and then reinstalling the freebsd bootloader. It is also handy for shrinking installs as well.
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