From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 4 20:26:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9137116A47B for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2006 20:26:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout3.cac.washington.edu (mxout3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FAE843D46 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2006 20:26:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.139]) by mxout3.cac.washington.edu (8.13.6+UW06.03/8.13.6+UW06.03) with ESMTP id k54KQJKa032514 for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2006 13:26:19 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.0.40] (dsl254-013-145.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.254.13.145]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.6+UW06.03/8.13.6+UW06.03) with ESMTP id k54KQDk0032274 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2006 13:26:18 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v750) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <65394600-0351-413E-82AD-D74FBE76D4C8@u.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: FreeBSD Questions From: Garrett Cooper Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 13:29:19 -0700 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.750) X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' Subject: Re: mount windows xp 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: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 20:26:20 -0000 On Jun 4, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: > Hi, thank you guys so much for the answer, I use mount_ntfs and now > it's okay. But.. I want to move a file from freebsd disk to xp disk, > as root. i cd to where I want to file to go e.g. /mnt/My > Doument.../here, then run mv /path/to/file . > it gives: ./xxx no such file or directory > > ?? what now?? > > p.s. i tried copy and it's the same.. > > many thanks!! > > TFC > Welcome to the wonderful world of sharing a partition between 2 OSes. Basically, the only filesystem you can use for sharing data read/ write between Windows and Unix is FAT32. It's just that Windows doesn't really have any promising read/write capable drivers (there's an ext2/3 driver, but that still is kind of iffy), and Unix doesn't have true NTFS write support (Linux is the closest to having true NTFS write support, IIRC). So, that leaves you with FAT32, which can only be created in 32GB partitions, because of the file data size limitations (32 bit ints I believe?). Good luck, and if you need to resize some Windows partitions look into partition magic. -Garrett