Writing to ntfs partitions?

Hi All,

I am trying to help a friend recover her Wind0ws harddisk. I
have a backup of 
all files on a UFS2 partition and I have a new and freshly 
partitioned/formatted harddisk with a number of NTFS
partitions. "man 
mount_ntfs" mentions write support for ntfs partitions
with some limitations, 
but I can't seem to write anything to any of the ntfs
partitions :(
I must be doing something wrong. Can anyone shed some light
on this?

Here is a transcript of what I've tried :
[rootChemobox /mnt/1]# uname -a
FreeBSD Chemobox.An.LAN 6.1-RC1 FreeBSD 6.1-RC1 #3: Sat Apr
29 11:33:34 CEST 
2006     rootChemobox.An.LAN:/home/src/sys/i386/compile/Chemobox 
i386

[rootChemobox /mnt]# mount -t ntfs /dev/ad4s5 /mnt/1
[rootChemobox /mnt]# cd /mnt/1

[rootChemobox /mnt/1]# ls -l
total 28596
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      2560 Apr 22  2009 $AttrDef
-rwxr-xr-x  0 root  wheel         0 Apr  6 22:18 $BadClus
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    163920 Apr 22  2009 $Bitmap
-rwxr-xr-x  0 root  wheel      8192 Apr  6 22:18 $Boot
drwxr-xr-x  0 root  wheel         0 Apr  6 22:18 $Extend
-rwxr-xr-x  0 root  wheel  28966912 Apr  6 22:18 $LogFile
-rwxr-xr-x  0 root  wheel      4096 Apr  6 22:18 $MFTMirr
-rwxr-xr-x  0 root  wheel         0 Apr 22  2009 $Secure
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    131072 Apr 22  2009 $UpCase
-rwxr-xr-x  0 root  wheel         0 Apr  6 22:18 $Volume
drwxr-xr-x  0 root  wheel         0 Apr  6 22:35 System
Volume Information

[rootChemobox /mnt/1]# mkdir test
mkdir: .: No such file or directory

[rootChemobox /mnt/1]# mkdir test.dir
mkdir: .: No such file or directory

[rootChemobox /mnt/1]# echo "foo" >bar.txt
su: bar.txt: No such file or directory

[rootChemobox /mnt/1]# mount
/dev/ad4s2a on / (ufs, local, soft-updates)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
/dev/ad4s3d on /home (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/ad4s5 on /mnt/1 (ntfs, local)

Thanks,
Daan
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Hi,

Good thing to have in your pocket:
http://trinityhome.org/tr
k/

Regards,
Maris Stegenburgs

On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:08:09 +0200
"Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" <Danovitschvitsch.net> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I am trying to help a friend recover her Wind0ws
harddisk. I have a backup of 
> all files on a UFS2 partition and I have a new and
freshly 
> partitioned/formatted harddisk with a number of NTFS
partitions. "man 
> mount_ntfs" mentions write support for ntfs
partitions with some limitations, 
> but I can't seem to write anything to any of the ntfs
partitions :(
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Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am trying to help a friend recover her Wind0ws
harddisk. I have a backup of 
> all files on a UFS2 partition and I have a new and
freshly 
> partitioned/formatted harddisk with a number of NTFS
partitions. "man 
> mount_ntfs" mentions write support for ntfs
partitions with some limitations, 
> but I can't seem to write anything to any of the ntfs
partitions :(
> I must be doing something wrong. Can anyone shed some
light on this?

Can't myself shed any light, and I see that others are
answering your
question with ntfs info.

However, if all else fails, and depending on the size of the
partitions
in question, you might be able to format one of them as
fat32, copy the
files over, then boot into Windows and use the convert
command to ntfs.

C:\Documents and Settings\User1>convert /?
Converts FAT volumes to NTFS.

CONVERT volume /FS:NTFS [/V]

  volume      Specifies the drive letter (followed by a
colon),
              mount point, or volume name.
  /FS:NTFS    Specifies that the volume to be converted to
NTFS.
  /V          Specifies that Convert should be run in
verbose mode.

Kurt
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