From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 3 12:11:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F0EC37B416 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 12:11:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 975E428D0C; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 15:11:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 15:11:42 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Scott Aitken Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: fat32 read/write In-Reply-To: <20020403200443.GA90099@gandalf.scott.sh> Message-ID: <20020403150914.O56569-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Scott Aitken wrote: > Hi all, a few days back I asked about using NTFS in read write mode, and the general feeling was that is is still "experimental". If I were to convert my volume to Fat32, would this mean I would "safely" mount my data read write? (I may have problems with fat32 on an 80gig partition - I'm not sure). > TIA > Scott With the mount command, it seems there really is no such thing as "safe." Better, when in doubt, to mount ro (read-only) I would say. Join a mail list dedicated solely to NTFS and Fat32, lurk or post, research, stay abreast of the latest read-write successes on FreeBSD. Just my TC. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message