You're right :) Sorry. file must be nonresident and must not contain any sparces (uninitialized areas);
What does this mean? :) big words for a 17 year old :$ Markie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daxbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Markie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 12:04 PM Subject: Re: rw on ntfs volume > > > 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?? > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > 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. > ... > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
