> > I thought that at least minimal
> > write support was available for ntfs under FreeBSD?
> > I'm following -CURRENT... did I miss
> > something from the mount_ntfs man page?
> >
> > when a simple mkdir foo complains that . doesn't exist seems unusual.
> >
> > # su -
> > # mkdir -p /mnt/w2k_d
> > # chown root:wheel /mnt/w2k_d
> > # chmod 777 /mnt/w2k_d
> > # mount -t ntfs -o rw /dev/ad0s5 /mnt/w2k_d
> > # cd /mnt/w2k_d
> > # mount | grep w2k
> > /dev/ad0s5 on /mnt/w2k_d (ntfs, local)
> >
> > # df -k w2k_d
> > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> > /dev/ad0s5 69754198 47186058 22568140 68% /mnt/w2k_d
> >
> > # touch foo (a file which doesn't exist)
> > touch: foo: No such file or directory
> >
> > # touch ra (a file which does exist)
> > touch: ra: Operation not supported
> >
> > # mkdir foo
> > mkdir: .: No such file or directory
> >
> > suggestions??
> >
> >
> >
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>
> As far as I am aware ntfs isn't writeable on FreeBSD, or Linux and probably
> anything else due to lack of proper documentation?
>
The man page for mount_ntfs seems to indicate otherwise
...
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.
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