Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 19:28:56 -0500 From: Scott W <wegster@mindcore.net> To: paul van den bergen <pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting windows FS questions Message-ID: <3FC150C8.1070704@mindcore.net> In-Reply-To: <200311241109.09724.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> References: <200311241109.09724.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au>
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paul van den bergen wrote: >Hi all, > >I have a dual boot machine.... Win2k + BSD... > >obviously I can mount the windows partition under BSD. >can I mount the BSD partition(s) under windows? > >I have been told that writing to the windows partition from BSD is kinda >dubious. why is this? is it possible to work around this? > > > > > Unsure if there's anything to mount BSD partitions from within Windows- I wouldn't be surprised, but as Windows uses broken/different permissions and file attributes, I wouldn't really want to do this. For mounting Windows filesystems, you can mount fat/vfat/fat32 partitions all day long read-write, but NTFS uses some sort of sequence IDs in their file attributes, which if ignored or screwed up, can cause serious issues on the filesystem....so in short, I don't mount NTFS read/write ;-) Scott
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