RW wrote:
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:17:49 -0500
Jerry McAllister <jerr...@msu.edu> wrote:
In general, you should not expect to be able to write to an ntfs file
system type. That is why I converted my MS-Win file system to
FAT32.
Not a good idea.
Why not as a matter of curiosity? It has its limitations (eg max file
size) but it's very cross platform.
According to the man page, some limited writing can be done,
but the list of limitations is long and they are not all immediately
straightforward.
You should be able to write to ntfs if you use the fuse version
sysutils/fusefs-ntfs - it "just works" in my experience.
I would suggest lots of testing, I did by copying bunches of files from
UFS to ntfs then md5-ing the originals and the copies and there were
plenty of differences. I decided I wasn't ready to trust it yet.
Chris
The last time I checked it required some (well-documented) adjustment
to make it mount from fstab as FreeBSD uses a hard-coded list of mount_*
commands rather than simply converting "mount -t foo" to mount_foo. I'm
not sure if this is fixed in 7.1 - but it's about time it was.
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