NTFS write support

[Vulpes Velox]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:51:29 +0300
Roman Kurakin <rik at inse.ru> wrote:

> Sergey Babkin:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >I've finally got Win XP as the second OS on my mahcine. The next
> >thing I've found is that NTFS support still seems to be read-only,
> >and it does not look like anybody is actively working on it.
> >So adding the NTFS write support looks like an interesting
> >project to undertake.
> >
> >Just in case, if anybody working on it already, please let me know.
> >Any kinds of ready pointers to the good docs would be welcome.
> >Or to the existing implementations too (Linux?).
> >
> IIRC Linux has write support but code marked as "NEW" and thus not
> stable. As for me, I solved that problem by setting up FreeBSD and
> Win on separate machines. I've done this after interference between
> ntloader and sysinstall.

I found a nice fix to be using partition magic, converting it to
fat32, and then reinstalling the freebsd bootloader. It is also handy
for shrinking installs as well.