Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 21:46:19 +0000 From: Jean-Paul Natola <jnatola@familycareintl.org> To: 'Tim Daneliuk' <tundra@tundraware.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Accessing file from windows or to windows-CORRECTION Message-ID: <AB2BC18AD166C948A0BC559E22CE9C9105DEC3B3@FCIEXCHANGE1.FCI> In-Reply-To: <4BE334F9.2020107@tundraware.com>
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>I'd be curious to know if it is still the case that ntfs writes are >not reliable in that situation. There are times when doing this >can be handy on a dual-boot laptop, for example. 'Anyone out there >care to comment on the state of ntfs rw access? Sorry I was reading so much I go the commands mixed up, it's the mount_ntfs= command I was quoting "The windows NT/2000/XP standard filesystem, NTFS, is tightly integrated wi= th Microsoft's kernel. To write to an NTFS partition, you must have extensi= ve knowledge of how the filesystem works. Unfortunately, since that informa= tion is not available from Microsoft, you can read NTFS partitions but writ= ing may corrupt the partition. The mount command is mount_ntfs(8)." Note: Since Microsoft holds its filesystem interface so dear, and changes i= t regularly, don't count on this for frequent use. Using mount_ntfs can dam= age the filesystem
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