From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 18 2:46:51 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 E960837B401 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 02:46:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from cmailg2.svr.pol.co.uk (cmailg2.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.195.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FE1D43F93 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 02:46:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from markie@notwentytwo.freeserve.co.uk) Received: from modem-3004.gorilla.dialup.pol.co.uk ([81.78.107.188] helo=mrblossom) by cmailg2.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 18l5Gv-0008EB-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:46:46 +0000 Message-ID: <001a01c2d73b$54126850$0a00a8c0@mrblossom> From: "Markie" To: References: Subject: Re: rw on ntfs volume Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:48:47 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 I see. Well I have no idea then, sorry, i've tried writing to NTFS on FreeBSD and Linux and it just wasn't happening :) How different is the old NT4 version of NTFS to the Windows 2000 NTFS5 or whatever its called? Which are you using? Maybe that'd make a difference :s Just a thought! Markie :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Grant" To: "Markie" Cc: "freebsd-questions" Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 8:02 PM Subject: Re: rw on ntfs volume > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message