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
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]
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]
