From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 8 02:25:21 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 493FF16A400 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 02:25:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDEFF43D48 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 02:25:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k482PIMN022154; Sun, 7 May 2006 21:25:18 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <445EAC05.7060605@daleco.biz> Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 21:25:09 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060426 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "GiL A. Virtucio" References: <00a301c6723d$4c1146d0$5ac8a8c0@loui> In-Reply-To: <00a301c6723d$4c1146d0$5ac8a8c0@loui> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Writing to a mounted NTFS drive 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: Mon, 08 May 2006 02:25:21 -0000 GiL A. Virtucio wrote: > Hi, I have a mounted an NTFS partition that is set as "rw" in fstab. I can > read the data stored in the drive but I cannot store new files on that > drive. Anybody here encountered this before? Or can anybody please > suggest a way to make that drive writable? > Yes; I imagine that *everybody* who has tried this has encountered this (or something similar) before... If you RTF(riendly ;-)M, you'll see this: ---------------------------------- WRITING There is limited writing ability. Limitations: file must be nonresident and must not contain any sparces (uninitialized areas); compressed files are also not supported. The file name must not contain multibyte characters. ---------------------------------- A port exists (ntfsprogs) that *might* write NTFS a tad better, but I'm not sure that it's at all guaranteed. I'm certainly not going to do so ;-) IIRC, when you look up "proprietary" at Wikipedia, NTFS is a synonym. :-D Kevin Kinsey -- Lo! Men have become the tool of their tools. -- Henry David Thoreau