From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 30 09:39:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99A7A37B401 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:39:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parmenides.zen.co.uk (parmenides.zen.co.uk [212.23.8.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7F05743F75 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 09:39:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tony@ubik.demon.co.uk) Received: (qmail 32668 invoked from network); 30 Apr 2003 16:39:09 -0000 Received: from protagoras.zen.co.uk (212.23.8.61) by parmenides.zen.co.uk with QMQP; 30 Apr 2003 16:39:09 -0000 Received: from dsl-217-155-183-134.zen.co.uk (HELO ubik.demon.co.uk) (217.155.183.134) by protagoras.zen.co.uk with SMTP; 30 Apr 2003 16:39:09 -0000 X-Zen-Trace: 217.155.183.134 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:38:17 +0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Christopher Parker From: Anthony Naggs References: <20030430123121.28432.qmail@web40611.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030430123121.28432.qmail@web40611.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.01 U Subject: Re: NTFS Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:39:11 -0000 In article <20030430123121.28432.qmail@web40611.mail.yahoo.com>, Christopher Parker writes >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_ntfs&sektion=8 > >Is the documentation located here still relevant? I believe so. [snip] >Does FreeBSD still have limitations when accessing the NTFS filesystem? I want >to be able to >access the data on my WIN2K partition, as well as modify it if need be, from >FreeBSD and from >GNU/Linux. Beware that the Gnu/Linux NTFS has limitations on writing to NTFS volumes. Below is an extract from: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html#3.2 3.2 Can the Driver write to an NTFS volume, too? Not really. There are two drivers, currently. The original driver, in 2.4 has some write code in it, but it is extremely dangerous to use it. The possibility of destroying your filesystem is very high. The new driver, introduced in 2.5.11, has some write code, but it's very limited. The driver can overwrite existing files, but it cannot change the length, add new or delete existing files. Adding write support will take a long time. NTFS is built like a database. Any changes you make, necessitate making changes in many places, for consistancy. Make a mistake and the filesystem will be damaged, make too many mistakes and the filesystem will be destroyed. -- Anthony Naggs