Mounting NTFS drive/partition

Derek Ragona derek at computinginnovations.com
Fri Mar 30 17:20:16 UTC 2007


Not that I know of.  The extended partitions are implemented as 
linked-lists, and not in a partition table as standard partitions are and 
the mount_ntfs is not written for the extended partitions.

You can move things back and forth using the one partition that you can access.

         -Derek



At 11:54 AM 3/30/2007, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Ivan_Zenzerovi=E6?= wrote:
>Ok, I think I understand, but tell me, is there any way I can read those
>partitions from freebsd? If this helps, on that disk are no windows, there
>are 3 ntfs partitions.
>
>Ivan
>
>On 3/30/07, Derek Ragona <derek at computinginnovations.com> wrote:
>>
>>  You are able to mount the primary partition, not the extended
>>partitions.  This is a also a limitation mounting ms-dos fat drives.  The
>>extended partitions are done differently and are outside the partition
>>table.
>>
>>         -Derek
>>
>>At 07:58 AM 3/30/2007, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Ivan_Zenzerovi=E6?= wrote:
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm trying to mount an ntfs drive with mount_ntfs. Now, the system sees
>>the
>>second hard disk, but shows only one partition, ad1s1 wich is NTFS, but on
>>that disk there are 3 ntfs partitions and the system doesn't see them. On
>>windows they work fine.
>>
>>Another thing, after a day or two I tried to boot on windows and the
>>responded that a file is missing and that they can't start. After that I
>>rebooted and the started normaly! Weird. What could it be?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Ivan
>>
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