Subject: Re: mounting NTFS and FFS parts. on same physical disk.
To: None <martin@duskware.de, pete.vickers@uk.adtranz.com>
From: John Darrow <John.P.Darrow@wheaton.edu>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/30/2000 08:45:45
>> The question is what to use as the 'special device', for the mount command.

>You can add partitions outside the NetBSD part of the disk with disklabel(8).
>Just make up a 'f' partition and arrange for it to be identical to your
>NTFS partition, then use /dev/wd0f.

That's the good news.  The bad news is, Win2K (and NT4 SP3(?) and above)
default to a newer version of NTFS that NetBSD's mount_ntfs doesn't support.
So all you'd be able to get is raw disk access.

I've got the same situation here...

jdarrow

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