Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 10:36:24 -0800 From: "Parker Brown" <phbrown@charter.net> To: "Jerry McAllister" <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: FreeBSD <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: INTERFACING WITH NTFS Message-ID: <002601c7601e$58686330$5a74d742@brownhouse> References: <000d01c75f69$d01f1050$5a74d742@brownhouse> <20070305210736.GA5466@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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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" <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: "Parker Brown" <phbrown@charter.net> Cc: "FreeBSD" <questions@freebsd.org> 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"
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