ntfs mount

[Mark Ovens]

J. W. Ballantine wrote:
> Seems our friends in redmond have done something strange with the
> fs type.  both w2k partitions on the disk show a type of 45

Hmm, it's not a brand-name PC that came with Windows pre-installed is 
it? If so there may be a hidden "recovery/diagnostics" partition that is 
confusing fdisk.

Do you have anything like OnTrack Disk Manager installed to get round 
disk size limitations in the BIOS? Unlikely with a machine that runs 
W2K, but I do know someone that installed in on a P-III machine when he 
built it, using an old 6.5Gbyte disk, "because it came with the disk"?

Since you have 2 Windows partitions, you haven't installed any form of 
multi-OS boot manager have you? You wouldn't need it with W2K but you 
may have had if you had 2 different versions of Win9x on there once over?

Can you post the whole output of `fdisk ad0', it may just give someone a 
clue?

> and both freebsd show 165.
> 

Which is correct.


Regards,

Mark

> Thanks
> Jim
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>>  Date:  Thu, 06 May 2004 20:40:45 +0100
>>  To:  "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb at homer.att.com>, freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>>  From:  Mark Ovens <mark at ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
>>  Subject:  Re: ntfs mount
>>
>>  J. W. Ballantine wrote:
>>  > when I do a properties under w2k it says file system is ntfs,
>>  > fdisk on bsd show partition 1 is sysid 45,(unknown)
>>  > 
>>  
>>  Hmm, should be sysid 7. I can't remember if the NTFS driver is built 
>>  into the kernel (by default) or it's a kld module under 4.x, I'm running 
>>  -CURRENT, but I'm sure I never had to do anything special for NTFS 
>>  support in 4.x and the Handbook and FAQ only mention mount_ntfs.
>>  
>>  FWIW, here's what I get (single partition, C:, on the first drive). Note 
>>  mine is 'da0', not 'ad0', as it's SCSI not IDE:
>>  
>>  /home/mark{38}# fdisk da0
>>  ******* Working on device /dev/da0 *******
>>  parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
>>  cylinders=8924 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
>>  
>>  Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
>>  parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
>>  cylinders=8924 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
>>  
>>  Media sector size is 512
>>  Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
>>  Information from DOS bootblock is:
>>  The data for partition 1 is:
>>  sysid 7 (0x07),(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX-2 (16 bit) or Advanced UNIX)
>>       start 63, size 143347932 (69994 Meg), flag 0
>>           beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
>>           end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
>>  The data for partition 2 is:
>>  <UNUSED>
>>  The data for partition 3 is:
>>  <UNUSED>
>>  The data for partition 4 is:
>>  <UNUSED>
>>  /home/mark{39}#
>>  
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>>  >>  Date:  Thu, 06 May 2004 20:01:24 +0100
>>  >>  To:  "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb at homer.att.com>, freebsd-questions at freebsd.o
> rg
>>  >>  From:  Mark Ovens <mark at ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
>>  >>  Subject:  Re: ntfs mount
>>  >>
>>  >>  J. W. Ballantine wrote:
>>  >>  > 
>>  >>  > yes, there is only one hard disk.
>>  >>  > 
>>  >>  
>>  >>  What does the output from `fdisk ad0' show?
>>  >>  
>>  >>  Regards,
>>  >>  
>>  >>  Mark
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