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]"
