From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 22 8: 0:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bumper.jellybaby.net (bumper.jellybaby.net [194.159.247.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C45437B400 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 08:00:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from simond@localhost) by bumper.jellybaby.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) id QAA45066; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:00:13 GMT (envelope-from simond) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:00:13 +0000 From: simond@irrelevant.org To: Christophe Jelger Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MS-DOS partition Message-ID: <20010122160013.C32390@irrelevant.org> References: <3A6C5613.E80CB787@swan.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3A6C5613.E80CB787@swan.ac.uk>; from eejelgec@swan.ac.uk on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 03:47:31PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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