Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:45:24 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting NTFS drive/partition Message-ID: <460DD954.1090107@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20070330083823.024a73d0@mail.computinginnovations.com> References: <640eadd40703300558oa5ff51x42682dfd505f71bd@mail.gmail.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20070330083823.024a73d0@mail.computinginnovations.com>
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Derek Ragona wrote: > You are able to mount the primary partition, not the extended > partitions. This is a also a limitation mounting ms-dos fat drives. > The extended partitions are done differently and are outside the > partition table. > > -Derek > > At 07:58 AM 3/30/2007, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Ivan_Zenzerovi=E6?= wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to mount an ntfs drive with mount_ntfs. Now, the system >> sees the >> second hard disk, but shows only one partition, ad1s1 wich is NTFS, >> but on >> that disk there are 3 ntfs partitions and the system doesn't see >> them. On >> windows they work fine. >> >> Another thing, after a day or two I tried to boot on windows and the >> responded that a file is missing and that they can't start. After that I >> rebooted and the started normaly! Weird. What could it be? >> >> Thanks, >> Ivan >> >> -- DOS partitions handled by the Logical Volume Manager are tricky critters to deal with (if that's in fact what you have setup). That's why I suggest that you move back to a 'Basic' configuration -- that way your partitions will be readable using any OS. Cheers, -Garrett
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