Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 12:39:32 -0000 From: "Markie" <markie@notwentytwo.freeserve.co.uk> To: "Daxbert" <daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: rw on ntfs volume Message-ID: <001101c2d681$a38542a0$0a00a8c0@mrblossom> References: <02f901c2d637$e2628d10$8a01a8c0@dweebsoft.com> <004901c2d67c$8379edd0$0a00a8c0@mrblossom> <037501c2d67c$c0f9a470$8a01a8c0@dweebsoft.com>
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You're right :) Sorry. file must be nonresident and must not contain any sparces (uninitialized areas); What does this mean? :) big words for a 17 year old :$ Markie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daxbert" <daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com> To: "Markie" <markie@notwentytwo.freeserve.co.uk>; <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 12:04 PM Subject: Re: rw on ntfs volume > > > I thought that at least minimal > > > write support was available for ntfs under FreeBSD? > > > I'm following -CURRENT... did I miss > > > something from the mount_ntfs man page? > > > > > > when a simple mkdir foo complains that . doesn't exist seems unusual. > > > > > > # su - > > > # mkdir -p /mnt/w2k_d > > > # chown root:wheel /mnt/w2k_d > > > # chmod 777 /mnt/w2k_d > > > # mount -t ntfs -o rw /dev/ad0s5 /mnt/w2k_d > > > # cd /mnt/w2k_d > > > # mount | grep w2k > > > /dev/ad0s5 on /mnt/w2k_d (ntfs, local) > > > > > > # df -k w2k_d > > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > > /dev/ad0s5 69754198 47186058 22568140 68% /mnt/w2k_d > > > > > > # touch foo (a file which doesn't exist) > > > touch: foo: No such file or directory > > > > > > # touch ra (a file which does exist) > > > touch: ra: Operation not supported > > > > > > # mkdir foo > > > mkdir: .: No such file or directory > > > > > > suggestions?? > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > As far as I am aware ntfs isn't writeable on FreeBSD, or Linux and probably > > anything else due to lack of proper documentation? > > > > The man page for mount_ntfs seems to indicate otherwise > > ... > WRITING > There is limited writing ability. Limitations: file must be nonresident > and must not contain any sparces (uninitialized areas); compressed files > are also not supported. > ... > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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