Mounting /c

[Chris Whitehouse]

RW wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:17:49 -0500
> Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at msu.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
>> In general, you should not expect to be able to write to an ntfs file
>> system type.    That is why I converted my MS-Win file system to
>> FAT32. 
> 
> Not a good idea.

Why not as a matter of curiosity? It has its limitations (eg max file 
size) but it's very cross platform.

> 
>> According to the man page, some limited writing can be done,
>> but the list of limitations is long and they are not all immediately
>> straightforward.
> 
> You should be able to write to ntfs if you use the fuse version
> sysutils/fusefs-ntfs - it "just works" in my experience. 

I would suggest lots of testing, I did by copying bunches of files  from 
UFS to ntfs then md5-ing the originals and the copies and there were 
plenty of differences. I decided I wasn't ready to trust it yet.

Chris


> 
> The last time I checked it required some (well-documented) adjustment
> to make it mount from fstab as FreeBSD uses a hard-coded list of mount_*
> commands rather than simply converting "mount -t foo" to mount_foo. I'm
> not sure if this is fixed in 7.1 - but it's about time it was.
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