Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:09:57 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting /c Message-ID: <49690095.8030101@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <20090110033633.77e00a1e@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <4967C511.3060100@comcast.net> <20090109231748.GA3715@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20090110033633.77e00a1e@gumby.homeunix.com>
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RW wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:17:49 -0500 > Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> wrote: > > >> In general, you should not expect to be able to write to an ntfs file >> system type. That is why I converted my MS-Win file system to >> FAT32. > > Not a good idea. Why not as a matter of curiosity? It has its limitations (eg max file size) but it's very cross platform. > >> According to the man page, some limited writing can be done, >> but the list of limitations is long and they are not all immediately >> straightforward. > > You should be able to write to ntfs if you use the fuse version > sysutils/fusefs-ntfs - it "just works" in my experience. I would suggest lots of testing, I did by copying bunches of files from UFS to ntfs then md5-ing the originals and the copies and there were plenty of differences. I decided I wasn't ready to trust it yet. Chris > > The last time I checked it required some (well-documented) adjustment > to make it mount from fstab as FreeBSD uses a hard-coded list of mount_* > commands rather than simply converting "mount -t foo" to mount_foo. I'm > not sure if this is fixed in 7.1 - but it's about time it was. > _______________________________________________ > 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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