From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 17 12: 6: 1 2003 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 ADB8C37B401 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 12:06:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBD9B43F85 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 12:05:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 20:03:07 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 18krSq-0001CP-00; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 20:02:08 +0000 Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 20:02:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Markie Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: rw on ntfs volume In-Reply-To: <008301c2d6bb$9900a560$0a00a8c0@mrblossom> Message-ID: 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 Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Markie wrote: > You lost me there :) > Please forgive me if i'm being stupid and just don't understand at all :) > It says files have to be non resident? and non resident files are bigger > than 1k you say? > But making a plain new file or folder would be smaller than 1k wouldnt it? > So they'd be.. resident files and wouldnt write? :s > That's the impression i'm getting at the moment anyway :) NTFS filesystems _may_, under certain circumstances, create "resident" files of the type described. You won't be able to modify these. Filesystems mounted with mount_ntfs can't modify resident files. If you create a small file it will be nonresident, and you should be able to edit it (providing you don't fall foul of the other NTFS writing restrictions). -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ The Java disclaimer: values of 'anywhere' may vary between regions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message