Re: NTFS write access from FreeBSd

From: gez (etzell_at_home.se)
Date: 09/27/05 

Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 13:06:13 GMT

"jpd" <read_the_sig@do.not.spam.it.invalid> skrev i meddelandet
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> Begin <i0b_e.34791$d5.190004@newsb.telia.net>
> On 2005-09-27, gez <etzell@home.se> wrote:
>> I'm running a 5.3 installation and now I would like to copy files to a
>> Lacie
>> portable HD, 250GB. The drive is formatted with NTFS as I have some
>> really
>> big video files (20GB) and use XP for my video editing (..I know its a
>> shame
>> to use such crap as XP, but some time its necessary...).
>
> I disagree. A mac with final cut pro is a complete video editing
> solution. Heck, even with imovie you can do the simpler jobs already.
> There truly is no need to use micros~1 software here.
>
>
>> I managed to mount the drive with mount_ntfs, however mount_ntfs has
>> very limited capabilities for copying files to NTFS, its mainly for
>> reading NTFS volumes as I understands it,
>>
>> Can anybody help me with advice how to mount NTFS as a volume thats also
>> writeable. Preferrably with all the standard tools such as cp, cat,
>> etc...
>
> There isn't really any other option, for if it was known how to do
> it, someone probably would've added it to the ntfs driver. As it
> stands, it's all reverse engineering because micros~1 doesn't share
> the specifications for ntfs. If you know how to improve the ntfs code,
> you're more than welcome to contribute, of course.
>
> A network link is probably easiest, but as a workaround you can use
> split(1) to cut your files into chunks of just under 2GB so they fit
> on a fat32 fs, then you can use copy /b on your windows machine to
> reassemble the pieces. A small script that does this _and_ generates
> a batchfile to recombine the parts shouldn't be hard to write.
>
>
> --
> j p d (at) d s b (dot) t u d e l f t (dot) n l .

Hi

Thanx guys, it was as I suspected. Nice to get such quick answers. Regarding
converting to mac - yes its an option but it requires hardware that I
currently don't have so I'll stick with my MicroSOFT PC:-)

/GEZ

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