Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 00:05:08 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger <adam@vectors.cx> To: S Randall <randalls@xmission.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mounting an msdos volume? Message-ID: <20021010070508.GV81796@vectors.cx> In-Reply-To: <200210092357.28148.randalls@xmission.com> References: <200210092357.28148.randalls@xmission.com>
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>> (10.09.2002 @ 2257 PST): S Randall said, in 0.4K: <<
> I am running a dual boot system. WinXP (NTFS) and freebsd 4.6.2 on a seperate
> SCSI hard drive. Is there a way to mount the DOS hard drive/partition and
> read and write files to that volume? I was able to do this in mandrake
> linux. It was a link in my /mnt folder.
you can read NTFS filesystems, but you can't write to them.
if the NTFS drive is ad0, you can try putting:
/dev/ad0s1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro 0 2
in your /etc/fstab
you can test it out beforehand with:
mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/ad0s1 /mnt/windows
-Adam
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Adam Weinberger
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