Re: Mounting NTFS drive/partition

2007-03-31 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:54:13 +0200 Ivan Zenzerovi? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I think I understand, but tell me, is there any way I can read those partitions from freebsd? If this helps, on that disk are no windows, there are 3 ntfs partitions. Ivan On 3/30/07, Derek Ragona

Re: Mounting NTFS drive/partition

2007-03-30 Thread Derek Ragona
You are able to mount the primary partition, not the extended partitions. This is a also a limitation mounting ms-dos fat drives. The extended partitions are done differently and are outside the partition table. -Derek At 07:58 AM 3/30/2007, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Ivan_Zenzerovi=E6?= wrote:

Re: Mounting NTFS drive/partition

2007-03-30 Thread Ivan Zenzerović
Ok, I think I understand, but tell me, is there any way I can read those partitions from freebsd? If this helps, on that disk are no windows, there are 3 ntfs partitions. Ivan On 3/30/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are able to mount the primary partition, not the extended

Re: Mounting NTFS drive/partition

2007-03-30 Thread Derek Ragona
Not that I know of. The extended partitions are implemented as linked-lists, and not in a partition table as standard partitions are and the mount_ntfs is not written for the extended partitions. You can move things back and forth using the one partition that you can access. -Derek

Re: Mounting NTFS drive/partition

2007-03-30 Thread Ivan Zenzerović
Could I maybe fix this with trying to make the partitions again or something like this from windows with partition magic? I supose that on the same way freebsd does with it's partitions? Ivan On 3/30/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not that I know of. The extended partitions are

Re: Mounting NTFS drive/partition

2007-03-30 Thread Derek Ragona
You'd have to enlarge the primary partition and move the data from the two extended partitions into that partition. -Derek At 12:27 PM 3/30/2007, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Ivan_Zenzerovi=E6?= wrote: Could I maybe fix this with trying to make the partitions again or something like this from

Re: Mounting NTFS drive/partition

2007-03-30 Thread Garrett Cooper
Derek Ragona wrote: You are able to mount the primary partition, not the extended partitions. This is a also a limitation mounting ms-dos fat drives. The extended partitions are done differently and are outside the partition table. -Derek At 07:58 AM 3/30/2007,

Re: Mounting a drive

2006-07-10 Thread Fabian Keil
rs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone explain exactly what is meant by mounting a disk. I understand that it is making a disk available for use, but would like to understand the implications of the term and what abilities it confers.

Re: Mounting a drive

2006-07-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hallo Could someone explain exactly what is meant by mounting a disk. I understand that it is making a disk available for use, but would like to understand the implications of the term and what abilities it confers. Mounting connects the mount point to the device driver. After the