Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:00:13 +0000 From: simond@irrelevant.org To: Christophe Jelger <eejelgec@swan.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MS-DOS partition Message-ID: <20010122160013.C32390@irrelevant.org> In-Reply-To: <3A6C5613.E80CB787@swan.ac.uk>; from eejelgec@swan.ac.uk on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 03:47:31PM %2B0000 References: <3A6C5613.E80CB787@swan.ac.uk>
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On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 03:47:31PM +0000, Christophe Jelger wrote: > Hello. > > I am new to the list so please let me quickly introduce myself. My name > is Christophe Jelger, an MPHil student at the University of Wales > Swansea. My research topic in on IP over WDM. > > I have installed FreeBSD as well as Windows NT and I share a DOS > partition between both operating systems. The problem is I can only > access the DOS partition as a read-only file system from FreeBSD. I > checked the /etc/fstab file and the partition is marked as "ro" > read-only. Shall I edit this file directly to make it "rw" ? or is there > a command to be used for this purpose ? If it's msdos then just change the ro to rw and it'll work fine, ntfs doesn't seem to be trusted enough to be safe for writing :) -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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