From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 10 20:10:00 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 671701065675 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:10:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from smtp1.betherenow.co.uk (smtp1.betherenow.co.uk [87.194.0.68]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F2DF08FC12 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:09:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from [192.168.1.69] (93-97-24-219.zone5.bethere.co.uk [93.97.24.219]) by smtp1.betherenow.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21D2198022; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:09:58 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <49690095.8030101@onetel.com> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:09:57 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081128) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: RW References: <4967C511.3060100@comcast.net> <20090109231748.GA3715@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20090110033633.77e00a1e@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20090110033633.77e00a1e@gumby.homeunix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting /c X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:10:00 -0000 RW wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:17:49 -0500 > Jerry McAllister 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. Why not as a matter of curiosity? It has its limitations (eg max file size) but it's very cross platform. > >> 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. I would suggest lots of testing, I did by copying bunches of files from UFS to ntfs then md5-ing the originals and the copies and there were plenty of differences. I decided I wasn't ready to trust it yet. Chris > > 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" >