Copying data onto a NTFS partitioned hdd
After some help getting this External HDD mounted in FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE .. i now find im unable to copy any of the data from my BSD partition to the NTFS hdd .. can bsd write to a NTFS drive or am i doomed to have to use winblows ? -- Yours Sincerely Shinjii http://www.shinji.nq.nu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Copying data onto a NTFS partitioned hdd
On 7/7/05, Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After some help getting this External HDD mounted in FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE .. i now find im unable to copy any of the data from my BSD partition to the NTFS hdd .. can bsd write to a NTFS drive or am i doomed to have to use winblows ? -- Yours Sincerely Shinjii http://www.shinji.nq.nu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's a or ntfs writing is very limited under freebsd. I wouldn't try if I were you (see the man page on the link) : http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_ntfsapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+5.4-RELEASE+and+Portsformat=html If you don't have a windows install, you can try using a Linux LiveCD which includes captive-ntfs. You need a few dll from windows xp but I think there's a setup which download the windows xp sp1 for you to retrieve them automatically. But it's not a viable solution if you plan to copy files to the ntfs partition on a regular basis. I assume you are in a dual boot environment. I suggest you to format the external drive in fat32 if you want it to be readable by both Windows and FreeBSD. link to captive-ntfs : 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: Copying data onto a NTFS partitioned hdd
Warren wrote: After some help getting this External HDD mounted in FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE .. i now find im unable to copy any of the data from my BSD partition to the NTFS hdd .. can bsd write to a NTFS drive or am i doomed to have to use winblows ? You are right, ntfs with freebsd is not writeable. You could switch to smaller FAT32 partitions, thats how i do it. Regards Steven -- ++ message delivered by gizm0.org http://gizm0.org/ ++ free webmail - imap, pop3, ssl secured ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Copying data onto a NTFS partitioned hdd
Two days ago I was trying to pre-emptively solve this problem. A couple quickie comments that may help out at some point, plus related questions : I tried to format a new hard drive using Win2K, knowing there were issues w/ NTFS under *BSD. So, decided to format using FAT32 under disk management. It failed three times (only after wasting 30 mins or so ''formatting''). First, I selected 512 byte sectors .. they were ''too small.'' Then I went with ''default,'' but then the volume size was ''too large.'' (for a 40 GB drive, the identical twin of which served as a Win98 drive without a blurp). Last FAT32 effort I chose teh remaining 1024 byte sector option with same result as 512 byte option. Of course, win2K was too stupid lazy to evaluate these problems prior to committing to format actually pretending to do it ... So, I am assuming that for future, I would use Win98 to create a FAT32 data partition that can be shared by Win/linux *BSD. Or, possibly *BSD or linux to create such .. but I have my doubts regarding Win being able to access such. So, the question portion I wasn't able to answer through various google searches : Win insisted on ''writing a signature'' to the new drive (not used to install an OS .. just format as one large volume for data storage). I finally relented let it since I was unable to find out what such a ''signature'' is and, more importantly, couldn't locate a utility that would allow me to write a signature (or its equivalent) to the drive. Will this affect my ability to let *BSD read the drive later ..? What is this ''signature'' thingie, and what is the lingo for it under linux/*BSD? Is there a utility that I can run under Win or from a bootable floppy that would let me intitate a virgin drive ? Maybe even partition format in a ''universal'' FAT32 for DOS/Win/*nix/*BSD to all access for dfata read/writes? Other question on this is that I understand that linux has solutions to read/write to ntfs. Should *BSD not be able to emulate enough linux to use such a function ..? Linux Win emulation are sold pretty hard as one of the positive points about *BSD. I was going with the FAT32 solution to simplify my life, not because I thought it was required. BTW, I had to format as NTFS since Win2K is my only option for the moment; first time I ever tried to use WinNT to format a volume or drive as FAT32 was strikingly unsurprised when it failed at such a banal task. I am now operating under the assumption I must reformat later to use with *nix/*BSD, so this thread is quite interesting to me so I can do it right the next time .. hopefully within a week to ten days. -- datora serfing the stream electric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Copying data onto a NTFS partitioned hdd
datora tehnika wrote: ''too small.'' Then I went with ''default,'' but then the volume size was ''too large.'' (for a 40 GB drive, the identical twin of which This is known problem for Windows 2000 DiskManager. You can create FAT32 with Win98, Partition Magic, Linux, FreeBSD. Windows 2000 will be able to access disk. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Copying data onto a NTFS partitioned hdd
On 7/7/05, Igor Robul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: datora tehnika wrote: ''too small.'' Then I went with ''default,'' but then the volume size was ''too large.'' (for a 40 GB drive, the identical twin of which This is known problem for Windows 2000 DiskManager. You can create FAT32 with Win98, Partition Magic, Linux, FreeBSD. Windows 2000 will be able to access disk. Nice to have a recipe to get the porridge just right. ;-) I'm gonna take a stab at it over the next couple of days I'll post results, but I _think_ I can get the Win98 fdisk onto a bootable floppy and then FAT32 partition a hard drive from there. I seem to recall having done it about four years back, but i'm a bit fuzzy on the details at this moment. Need to pull my Win98 CD some old tech references. THANKS ! -- datora serfing the stream electric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Copying data onto a NTFS partitioned hdd
On Jul 7, 2005, at 7:07 AM, Igor Robul wrote: datora tehnika wrote: ''too small.'' Then I went with ''default,'' but then the volume size was ''too large.'' (for a 40 GB drive, the identical twin of which This is known problem for Windows 2000 DiskManager. You can create FAT32 with Win98, Partition Magic, Linux, FreeBSD. Windows 2000 will be able to access disk. I know it isn't what one would probably want to hear as a solution, but there are two other possibilities... Purchase a cheap Windows system to act as a file server on your home network, and you can share data using CIFS, or... Create a partition for Windows to share data with FreeBSD, and use an IFS driver to access it in a neutral filesystem, like EXT3 (something like http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ext2ifs.htm ). Depending on what you're using Windows for, you could also look into running something like VMWare on FreeBSD. Personally, just for less hassle down the road, I'd personally opt for the second machine and use file shares to share data. But that's just me... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Copying data onto a NTFS partitioned hdd
WinNT does not support FAT32 -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] BTW, I had to format as NTFS since Win2K is my only option for the moment; first time I ever tried to use WinNT to format a volume or drive as FAT32 was strikingly unsurprised when it failed at such a banal task. I am now operating under the assumption I must reformat later to use with *nix/*BSD, so this thread is quite interesting to me so I can do it right the next time .. hopefully within a week to ten days. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
