Re: mount windows xp

2006-06-04 Thread Atanas Atanasov
If you are using a GENERIC kernel, then ntfs is built in the kernel. Otherwise you may try kldload ntfs before compiling the kernel afresh. I have used mount_ntfs and it works perfectly. If I am not mistaken mount_ntfs is even more intelligent - if ntfs is not loaded it dynamically loads it with

Re: mount windows xp

2006-06-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Atanas Atanasov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you are using a GENERIC kernel, then ntfs is built in the kernel. No, it's not, in 6.1 at least. I don't recall that it ever was in the past, either. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: mount windows xp

2006-06-04 Thread Atanas Atanasov
My appologies, you are right. However if ntfs is not loaded then mount_ntfs loads it automatically so he doesn't need to worry about anything - just write mount_ntfs /dev/... ... and ready. Atanas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: mount windows xp

2006-06-04 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
?? p.s. i tried copy and it's the same.. many thanks!! TFC On 6/3/06, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i have a problem when trying to mount windows xp disk, I have freebsd6.1/amd64 on a SATA and wondows xp on a 80gb regular ATA disk separatly. I boot into freebsd and under /dev

Re: mount windows xp

2006-06-04 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jun 4, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi, thank you guys so much for the answer, I use mount_ntfs and now it's okay. But.. I want to move a file from freebsd disk to xp disk, as root. i cd to where I want to file to go e.g. /mnt/My Doument.../here, then run mv /path/to/file . it

Resizing Windows partitions ( was: Re: mount windows xp )

2006-06-04 Thread Lorin Lund
Garrett Cooper wrote: ... Good luck, and if you need to resize some Windows partitions look into partition magic. -Garrett If your budget doesn't allow for partition magic you might try Boot It NG from http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ ___

Re: mount windows xp

2006-06-04 Thread Atanas Atanasov
I often do this and there are two practical solutions. One is as Garrett mentioned to simply have a small FAT32 partition that suits your needs (remember max file size is 4GB), call it buffer, and mount if from both OS. A better solution may be to use samba. This is much better, but you need an

Re: Resizing Windows partitions ( was: Re: mount windows xp )

2006-06-04 Thread David King
Good luck, and if you need to resize some Windows partitions look into partition magic. If your budget doesn't allow for partition magic you might try Boot It NG from http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ I also have good experiences with Gparted (http://

mount windows xp

2006-06-03 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi, i have a problem when trying to mount windows xp disk, I have freebsd6.1/amd64 on a SATA and wondows xp on a 80gb regular ATA disk separatly. I boot into freebsd and under /dev, it shows: ad0 ad0s1 ad4 ad4s1 ... ad0 is the win$$ disk and ad4 is fbsd disk. I use mount_msdosfs /dev/ad0s1

Re: mount windows xp

2006-06-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi, i have a problem when trying to mount windows xp disk, I have freebsd6.1/amd64 on a SATA and wondows xp on a 80gb regular ATA disk separatly. I boot into freebsd and under /dev, it shows: ad0 ad0s1 ad4 ad4s1 ... ad0 is the win$$ disk and ad4 is fbsd disk. I use