From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 29 23:06:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA07170 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 23:06:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (slipper101131.iafrica.com [196.7.101.131]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA07149 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 23:06:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA00150; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 09:05:20 +0200 From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199601300705.JAA00150@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: Re: HPFS To: wangel@wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu (Wicked Angel) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 09:05:18 +0200 (SAT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Wicked Angel" at Jan 29, 96 11:25:36 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, Wicked Angel wrote: > . . . . . > I mounted the partition fine, but will FreeBSD read and write to it? > > It's a HPFS(os/2) partition, on a extended partition. > > As I said, it mounts fine, but goes crazy when I type 'ls' :) FS OS Supported ----------------------------------------------------- FAT MS-DOS Yes (Currently being revised) VFAT Windows95 Real Soon Now HPFS OS/2 No NTFS Windows NT No The filesystems are actually very different, except for FAT/VFAT. As you observed, trying to use one in place of another just results in a mess. Though I guess it shouldn't let you get that far. :-( -- Robert Nordier