On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 01:43:45PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: > Question 1) > > I have this alias that allows me to mount my windoze drive at /c: > > alias mdc='mount_ntfs /dev/ad1s1 /c' > > It works fine. I thought that I could automate the process further by > mounting /c at boot-up time, so I added this to fstab: > > # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump > Pass# > /dev/ad1s1 /c ntfs > rw 1 0
When using the built-in mount_ntfs you should really mount read-only. Maybe using the options 'ro' and 'late' will help. > Question 2) > > I know that it is possible to copy files from /c to my freebsd drive, but > is it possible to do that in reverse? You should use the sysutils/fusefs-ntfs port if you want to mount ntfs read/write. See /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-ntfs/files/README.FreeBSD Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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