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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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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/
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