From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 6 18:36:30 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16EF816A40B for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 18:36:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from phbrown@charter.net) Received: from mtao01.charter.net (mtao01.charter.net [209.225.8.186]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A409D13C4AA for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 18:36:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from phbrown@charter.net) Received: from aa03.charter.net ([10.20.200.155]) by mtao01.charter.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.00 201-2186-121-20061213) with ESMTP id <20070306183624.NXFB19399.mtao01.charter.net@aa03.charter.net>; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 13:36:24 -0500 Received: from brownhouse ([66.215.116.90]) by aa03.charter.net with SMTP id <20070306183624.QQJV6401.aa03.charter.net@brownhouse>; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 13:36:24 -0500 Message-ID: <002601c7601e$58686330$5a74d742@brownhouse> From: "Parker Brown" To: "Jerry McAllister" References: <000d01c75f69$d01f1050$5a74d742@brownhouse> <20070305210736.GA5466@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 10:36:24 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-Chzlrs: 0 Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: INTERFACING WITH NTFS X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:36:30 -0000 Thanks, Jerry. I've got plenty of disk space and this is probably what I'll end up doing. At the moment I'm following up on fusefs-ntfs port, and hoping that will work first. Parker ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry McAllister" To: "Parker Brown" Cc: "FreeBSD" Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 1:07 PM Subject: Re: INTERFACING WITH NTFS > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:04:06PM -0800, Parker Brown wrote: > >> >> Using the FreeBSD booter to manage both Windoz XP and FreeBSD 6.1 on the >> same SCSI drive. Under FreeBSD I've got XP mounted, and I've been able >> to >> examine the XP directories, but when I try to copy data or the contents >> of >> directories from FreeBSD to XP (using cp -R ), nothing copies, and I >> get error messages that say the TARGET files don't exist. >> >> Is FreeBSD not capable of copying into NTFS? Has anyone else had the >> same >> problem? > > This was just discussed on the list late last week. > Yes, FreeBSD can read, but (for the most part) does not write > to NTFS at this point in time. There are a couple of ports that > claim to write to NTFS. I haven't tried them. > > When I dual boot with MS-NTFS, I actually squeeze the NTFS slice down > just a little further and make a couple or so GB slice in FAT32 that > I can read and write from both FreeBSD and Microsloth. That means I > am using up 3 rather than 2 slices when dual booting that combination; > NTFS, FAT32, FreeBSD. > > I don't know if work is being done to make standard FreeBSD write NTFS. > Search the recent questions archive for the recent exchanges. > > ////jerry >> >> >> >> Parker Brown >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"