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Date:      Sun, 22 Aug 2010 13:07:22 +1000
From:      Jason Leschnik <leschnik@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: External HD
Message-ID:  <AANLkTinzQUbFnXBReyTVeMS1OS%2BXriPcu0gVOHiqS0Sz@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100822040959.3fb57897@kerberos.hades>
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Is there much Data on the disk?, it may be worth while moving to FAT32 or a
FS that is shared by both (If your happy to live with the <4GB max file
size).

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Philipp Lengemann <phleng@arcor.de> wrote=
:

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> Am Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:24:14 +0300
> schrieb Elias Chrysocheris <eliaschr@cha.forthnet.gr>:
>
> > On Saturday 21 of August 2010 20:03:02 Mario Lobo wrote:
> > > On Saturday 21 August 2010 13:46:43 Rem P Roberti wrote:
> > > > > Rem P Roberti<remegius@comcast.net>  =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=
=82:
> > > > >>    I have a 500GB USB HD which I am able mount thus:
> > > > >>       mount_ntfs /dev/da2s1 /mnt
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Having done so I can copy from the external drive, but not
> > > > >> write to it. What is necessary to implement in order to be
> > > > >> able to write to an external hard drive?
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Rem
> > > > >
> > > > > use the port /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-ntfs
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for the tip.  I have installed the port and will give it a
> > > > try, although I'm a little leery given Ryan's post.
> > > >
> > > > Rem
> > > > _______________________________________________
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> > > Don't forget to do this:
> > >
> > > cd /sbin
> > > mv -f mount_ntfs mount_ntfs-kern
> > > ln -s /usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g mount_ntfs
> > >
> > > so you can mount your ntfs disk right from fstab.
> > >
> > > I have all my vbox vdi files on an ntfs drive and I'm yet to have a
> > > problem with it.
> >
> > Well, I used to have an external NTFS hard drive. I used fusefs-ntfs
> > and I could write in the drive. But there were times where the
> > machine crashed and I couldn't even get a core dump. It also stoped
> > durong the core dump and freezed... So I couldn't even place a PR for
> > that...
> >
> > That was in amd64 architecture
> >
> > Best regards
> > Elias
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> Same problem here. Writing to NTFS with fuse-ntfs is also an experience
> everytime. Don't rely on that! It brought me some nerve wracking
> moments.
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Regards,
Jason Leschnik.

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