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Date:      Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:00:13 +0000
From:      simond@irrelevant.org
To:        Christophe Jelger <eejelgec@swan.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MS-DOS partition
Message-ID:  <20010122160013.C32390@irrelevant.org>
In-Reply-To: <3A6C5613.E80CB787@swan.ac.uk>; from eejelgec@swan.ac.uk on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 03:47:31PM %2B0000
References:  <3A6C5613.E80CB787@swan.ac.uk>

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On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 03:47:31PM +0000, Christophe Jelger wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I am new to the list so please let me quickly introduce myself. My name
> is Christophe Jelger, an MPHil student at the University of Wales
> Swansea. My research topic in on IP over WDM.
> 
> I have installed FreeBSD as well as Windows NT and I share a DOS
> partition between both operating systems. The problem is I can only
> access the DOS partition as a read-only file system from FreeBSD. I
> checked the /etc/fstab file and the partition is marked as "ro"
> read-only. Shall I edit this file directly to make it "rw" ? or is there
> a command to be used for this purpose ?

If it's msdos then just change the ro to rw and it'll work fine, ntfs
doesn't seem to be trusted enough to be safe for writing :)

-- 
Simon Dick					simond@irrelevant.org


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