Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:14:41 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Stan Cooper <soupercooper@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How Write To Win Drive? Message-ID: <20070327231441.GA95398@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20070327194343.8128.qmail@web63313.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <20070327153454.GA82563@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20070327194343.8128.qmail@web63313.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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--T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 12:43:43PM -0700, Stan Cooper wrote: > Eric writes: >=20 > > what kind of file system? fat or NTFS? I dont think you can write to=20 > > NTFS drives from BSD can you, at least not without a port? > >=20 > > see if this port helps: > >=20 > > ntfsprogs Try /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-ntfs instead. It's newer and is supposed to support writing.=20 > Yes, Eric, you're right, it is an NTFS drive. Didn't know there was > any other kind ;) There's FAT32, which is well-known and supported, but wastes space on larger drives. > Roland writes:=20 > > How is the drive mounted? If you type "mount" does it show the drive to > > be mounted read-only? >=20 > I unmounted, typed "mount /win" and it just gave me a prompt. But the > command I really need to use, if I understand correctly, is > "mount_ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /win". What I meant was; if the drive is mounted and you type 'mount' at the command prompt, you get a list of all mounts. If they are read-only, it says so there. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGCaVhEnfvsMMhpyURAsnGAJ9UQw+x6uMl3bEQzfQXKNWFx3ktqQCdGcuG 5K5xj3XdjFsnlrY9Clu8j2I= =EAv+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR--
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