Re: rw on ntfs volume

2003-02-18 Thread Jan Grant
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Markie wrote: > I see. Well I have no idea then, sorry, i've tried writing to NTFS on > FreeBSD and Linux and it just wasn't happening :) > How different is the old NT4 version of NTFS to the Windows 2000 NTFS5 or > whatever its called? Which are you using? > Maybe that'd make

Re: rw on ntfs volume

2003-02-18 Thread Markie
thought! Markie :) - Original Message - From: "Jan Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Markie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "freebsd-questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 8:02 PM Subject: Re: rw on ntfs volume > On Mon, 17 Feb

Re: rw on ntfs volume

2003-02-17 Thread Jan Grant
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Markie wrote: > You lost me there :) > Please forgive me if i'm being stupid and just don't understand at all :) > It says files have to be non resident? and non resident files are bigger > than 1k you say? > But making a plain new file or folder would be smaller than 1k would

Re: rw on ntfs volume

2003-02-17 Thread Markie
ident files and wouldnt write? :s That's the impression i'm getting at the moment anyway :) Markie - Original Message - From: "Jan Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Markie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "freebsd-questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: rw on ntfs volume

2003-02-17 Thread Jan Grant
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Markie wrote: > I think I get that :) Thanks. > So maybe its not working because you're making things smaller than 1k? like > new files? > have you tried copying something big to the mount instead of making new > files? :) mount_ntfs filesystems don't create resident files.

Re: rw on ntfs volume

2003-02-17 Thread Markie
;Markie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Daxbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "freebsd-questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 4:21 PM Subject: Re: rw on ntfs volume > On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Markie wrote: > > > You're right :) S

Re: rw on ntfs volume

2003-02-17 Thread Jan Grant
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Markie wrote: > You're right :) Sorry. > > file must be nonresident and must not contain any sparces (uninitialized > areas); > > What does this mean? :) big words for a 17 year old :$ Nonresident: Bigger than a kilobyte :-) A "resident" file is an optimisation. Roughly by an

Re: rw on ntfs volume

2003-02-17 Thread Markie
TECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 12:04 PM Subject: Re: rw on ntfs volume > > > I thought that at least minimal > > > write support was available for ntfs under FreeBSD? > > > I'm following -CURRENT... did I miss > > > someth

Re: rw on ntfs volume

2003-02-17 Thread Daxbert
> > I thought that at least minimal > > write support was available for ntfs under FreeBSD? > > I'm following -CURRENT... did I miss > > something from the mount_ntfs man page? > > > > when a simple mkdir foo complains that . doesn't exist seems unusual. > > > > # su - > > # mkdir -p /mnt/w2k_d >

Re: rw on ntfs volume

2003-02-17 Thread Markie
As far as I am aware ntfs isn't writeable on FreeBSD, or Linux and probably anything else due to lack of proper documentation? Markie - Original Message - From: "admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 3:51 AM Subje

rw on ntfs volume

2003-02-16 Thread admin
I thought that at least minimal write support was available for ntfs under FreeBSD? I'm following -CURRENT... did I miss something from the mount_ntfs man page? when a simple mkdir foo complains that . doesn't exist seems unusual. # su - # mkdir -p /mnt/w2k_d # chown root:wheel /mnt/w2k_d