NTFS Question

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Wed Apr 30 06:01:03 PDT 2003


Christopher Parker wrote:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_ntfs&sektion=8
> 
> Is the documentation located here still relevant? I am trying to create  a 50 GB partition in
> Windows 2000 in the FAT32 filesystem format. It's not working so far, even if I use a Windows 98
> or ME disk to do so. So, it looks like I may have to use NTFS with Windows 2000.
> 
> Does FreeBSD still have limitations when accessing the NTFS filesystem? I want to be able to
> access the data on my WIN2K partition, as well as modify it if need be, from FreeBSD and from
> GNU/Linux.

As far as I know that document is still accurate.

Why don't you make a 55G NTFS partition for Win2k and a 5G FAT partition that
can be shared between all OSes?

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com



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