Re: rw on ntfs volume

2003-02-18 Thread 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 2003, Markie wrote: You lost me there :) Please forgive me if i'm being

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 a

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 Subject: rw on ntfs volume I thought

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 # chown

Re: rw on ntfs volume

2003-02-17 Thread Markie
, 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 something from the mount_ntfs man page? when a simple mkdir foo complains that . doesn't exist seems

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 analogy,

Re: rw on ntfs volume

2003-02-17 Thread Markie
: 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 :) Sorry. file must be nonresident and must not contain any sparces (uninitialized areas); What does

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
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] Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 7:23 PM Subject: Re: rw on ntfs volume On Mon, 17

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 wouldnt