mount windows xp
hi, i have a problem when trying to mount windows xp disk, I have freebsd6.1/amd64 on a SATA and wondows xp on a 80gb regular ATA disk separatly. I boot into freebsd and under /dev, it shows: ad0 ad0s1 ad4 ad4s1 ... ad0 is the win$$ disk and ad4 is fbsd disk. I use mount_msdosfs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt it gives: Invalid argument i heard something about not being to mount a disk too big, so I put the "MSDOSFS_LARGE" option in my kernel config, sitll no use. any idea?? thanks!! TFC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mount windows xp
Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi, i have a problem when trying to mount windows xp disk, I have freebsd6.1/amd64 on a SATA and wondows xp on a 80gb regular ATA disk separatly. I boot into freebsd and under /dev, it shows: ad0 ad0s1 ad4 ad4s1 ... ad0 is the win$$ disk and ad4 is fbsd disk. I use mount_msdosfs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt it gives: Invalid argument i heard something about not being to mount a disk too big, so I put the "MSDOSFS_LARGE" option in my kernel config, sitll no use. any idea?? thanks!! TFC Try building NTFS support into the kernel and then mount the drive using mount_ntfs. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mount windows xp
If you are using a GENERIC kernel, then ntfs is built in the kernel. Otherwise you may try kldload ntfs before compiling the kernel afresh. I have used mount_ntfs and it works perfectly. If I am not mistaken mount_ntfs is even more intelligent - if ntfs is not loaded it dynamically loads it with kldload and mounts the partition. Anyway what is the file system on your Windows XP partition? Atanas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mount windows xp
"Atanas Atanasov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you are using a GENERIC kernel, then ntfs is built in the kernel. No, it's not, in 6.1 at least. I don't recall that it ever was in the past, either. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mount windows xp
My appologies, you are right. However if ntfs is not loaded then mount_ntfs loads it automatically so he doesn't need to worry about anything - just write mount_ntfs /dev/... ... and ready. Atanas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mount windows xp
Hi, thank you guys so much for the answer, I use mount_ntfs and now it's okay. But.. I want to move a file from freebsd disk to xp disk, as root. i cd to where I want to file to go e.g. /mnt/My Doument.../here, then run mv /path/to/file . it gives: ./xxx no such file or directory ?? what now?? p.s. i tried copy and it's the same.. many thanks!! TFC On 6/3/06, Tsu-Fan Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi, i have a problem when trying to mount windows xp disk, I have freebsd6.1/amd64 on a SATA and wondows xp on a 80gb regular ATA disk separatly. I boot into freebsd and under /dev, it shows: ad0 ad0s1 ad4 ad4s1 ... ad0 is the win$$ disk and ad4 is fbsd disk. I use mount_msdosfs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt it gives: Invalid argument i heard something about not being to mount a disk too big, so I put the "MSDOSFS_LARGE" option in my kernel config, sitll no use. any idea?? thanks!! TFC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mount windows xp
On Jun 4, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi, thank you guys so much for the answer, I use mount_ntfs and now it's okay. But.. I want to move a file from freebsd disk to xp disk, as root. i cd to where I want to file to go e.g. /mnt/My Doument.../here, then run mv /path/to/file . it gives: ./xxx no such file or directory ?? what now?? p.s. i tried copy and it's the same.. many thanks!! TFC Welcome to the wonderful world of sharing a partition between 2 OSes. Basically, the only filesystem you can use for sharing data read/ write between Windows and Unix is FAT32. It's just that Windows doesn't really have any promising read/write capable drivers (there's an ext2/3 driver, but that still is kind of iffy), and Unix doesn't have true NTFS write support (Linux is the closest to having true NTFS write support, IIRC). So, that leaves you with FAT32, which can only be created in 32GB partitions, because of the file data size limitations (32 bit ints I believe?). Good luck, and if you need to resize some Windows partitions look into partition magic. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: mount windows xp
I often do this and there are two practical solutions. One is as Garrett mentioned to simply have a small FAT32 partition that suits your needs (remember max file size is 4GB), call it buffer, and mount if from both OS. A better solution may be to use samba. This is much better, but you need an extra server running either pure Windows or some alternative OS with samba server. Then you simply access this server from both OS and it should not be a problem hopefully. Sometimes I am surprised by the wonders an extra smbfs record in fstab can do. It is very very practical, believe me. It has saved me out of sticky situations a number of times. Just remember to put tight security settings on the file server. Atanas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Resizing Windows partitions ( was: Re: mount windows xp )
Garrett Cooper wrote: ... Good luck, and if you need to resize some Windows partitions look into partition magic. -Garrett If your budget doesn't allow for partition magic you might try Boot It NG from http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Resizing Windows partitions ( was: Re: mount windows xp )
Good luck, and if you need to resize some Windows partitions look into partition magic. If your budget doesn't allow for partition magic you might try Boot It NG from http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ I also have good experiences with Gparted (http:// gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php), they have a LiveCD at http:// gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
