Re: Writing to a mounted NTFS drive
Kevin Kinsey wrote: > GiL A. Virtucio wrote: >> Hi, I have a mounted an NTFS partition that is set as "rw" in fstab. I >> can >> read the data stored in the drive but I cannot store new files on that >> drive. Anybody here encountered this before? Or can anybody please >> suggest a way to make that drive writable? >> > > Yes; I imagine that *everybody* who has tried this has encountered > this (or something similar) before... > > If you RTF(riendly ;-)M, you'll see this: > > -- > 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. > The file name must not contain multibyte characters. > -- > > A port exists (ntfsprogs) that *might* write NTFS a > tad better, but I'm not sure that it's at all guaranteed. > I'm certainly not going to do so ;-) > > IIRC, when you look up "proprietary" at Wikipedia, NTFS > is a synonym. :-D > > Kevin Kinsey > quite interesting.. http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Writing to a mounted NTFS drive
GiL A. Virtucio wrote: Hi, I have a mounted an NTFS partition that is set as "rw" in fstab. I can read the data stored in the drive but I cannot store new files on that drive. Anybody here encountered this before? Or can anybody please suggest a way to make that drive writable? Yes; I imagine that *everybody* who has tried this has encountered this (or something similar) before... If you RTF(riendly ;-)M, you'll see this: -- 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. The file name must not contain multibyte characters. -- A port exists (ntfsprogs) that *might* write NTFS a tad better, but I'm not sure that it's at all guaranteed. I'm certainly not going to do so ;-) IIRC, when you look up "proprietary" at Wikipedia, NTFS is a synonym. :-D Kevin Kinsey -- Lo! Men have become the tool of their tools. -- Henry David Thoreau ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Writing to a mounted NTFS drive
FreeBSD don't have support for write in NTFS partition. that I believe :P. -- Linux is for people who hate Micro$oft. BSD is for people who love Unix ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Writing to a mounted NTFS drive
Hi, I have a mounted an NTFS partition that is set as "rw" in fstab. I can read the data stored in the drive but I cannot store new files on that drive. Anybody here encountered this before? Or can anybody please suggest a way to make that drive writable? the hadisk is detected as ad1: 38166MB at ata0-slave UDMA33 it is mounted in the /etc/fstab as /dev/ad1s1 /LouiGintfsrw 0 0 here is the output of my uname -a FreeBSD bok.gihl.eu.org 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Mar 3 15:43:19 PHT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GiHL i386 and i have this error whenever i try to write a file... [BoK]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> echo cristale >> kwak.txt kwak.txt: No such file or directory. [BoK]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> touch lualhati.txt touch: lualhati.txt: No such file or directory thank you very much. = Gil A. Virtucio Janitor/Kolektor/Messenger/Driver Asia Solution Phillippines Inc. 28/F Antel Global Corporate Center 3 Doña Julia Vargas Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig Mobile # : +63-916-3989695 http://gihl.eu.org/ = ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
