Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:13:27 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting /c Message-ID: <20090110181326.GA7052@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20090110033633.77e00a1e@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <4967C511.3060100@comcast.net> <20090109231748.GA3715@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20090110033633.77e00a1e@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 03:36:33AM +0000, RW wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:17:49 -0500 > Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> wrote: > > > > In general, you should not expect to be able to write to an ntfs file > > system type. That is why I converted my MS-Win file system to > > FAT32. > > Not a good idea. I didn't need anything ntfs provided and it was convenient rather than further dividing the disk to have a write area. ////jerry > > > According to the man page, some limited writing can be done, > > but the list of limitations is long and they are not all immediately > > straightforward. > > You should be able to write to ntfs if you use the fuse version > sysutils/fusefs-ntfs - it "just works" in my experience. > > The last time I checked it required some (well-documented) adjustment > to make it mount from fstab as FreeBSD uses a hard-coded list of mount_* > commands rather than simply converting "mount -t foo" to mount_foo. I'm > not sure if this is fixed in 7.1 - but it's about time it was. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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