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BUGS section is gone, the facts are stated in the paragraph about
support for writing.
also note that NetBSD 1.5 is the first release supporting NTFS
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.\" $NetBSD: mount_ntfs.8,v 1.5 1999/09/12 18:47:11 kleink Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: mount_ntfs.8,v 1.6 1999/12/17 14:43:07 jdolecek Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1993,1994 Christopher G. Demetriou
.\" Copyright (c) 1999 Semen Ustimenko
@ -83,7 +83,8 @@ Specify the maximum file permissions for files
in the file system.
.El
.Sh FEATURES
NTFS file attributes are accessed in following way:
.Ss NTFS file attributes
NTFS file attributes can be accessed in following way:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
foo[[:ATTRTYPE]:ATTRNAME]
.Ed
@ -93,12 +94,8 @@ is one of identifier listed in $AttrDef file of
volume. Default is $DATA.
.Sq ATTRNAME
is an attribute name. Default is none.
.Sh EXAMPLES
To mount an ntfs volume located in
.Pa /dev/wd1s1 :
.Bd -literal -offset indent
# mount_ntfs /dev/wd1s1 /mnt
.Ed
.Pp
.Sy Examples:
.Pp
To get volume name (in Unicode):
.Bd -literal -offset indent
@ -110,31 +107,34 @@ To read directory raw data:
# cat /mnt/foodir:\\$INDEX_ROOT:\\$I30
.Ed
.Pp
.Sh WRITING
There is limited writing ability. Limitations: file must be nonresident
and must not contain any holes (uninitialized areas), compressed
files are not supported either.
.Ss Limited support for writing
There is limited writing ability. Limitations: file must be nonresident,
must not contain any holes (uninitialized areas) and can't be compressed.
.Pp
.Sy Warning:
while read-only mode appears to be very stable and there are
no known problems, the read-write mode
has not been very well tested yet and it may well be possible
that an attempt to write into file residing on NTFS could
damage the filesystem. Don't experiment with read-write mode unless
you are ready to recover the trashed contents any time.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mount 2 ,
.Xr unmount 2 ,
.Xr fstab 5 ,
.Xr mount 8
.Sh BUGS
Note that NTFS support is still very experimental on NetBSD and
should be used with extreme caution. Do not mount NTFS volumes read-write
unless you are ready to recreate trashed contents.
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
first appeared in
Support for NTFS first appeared in
.Fx 3.0 .
It has been ported to NetBSD and first appeared here in
.Nx 1.5 .
.Sh AUTHOR
NTFS kernel implementation,
.Nm
and manual were written by
and this manual were originally written by
.An Semen Ustimenko Aq semenu@FreeBSD.org .
NetBSD port by
NetBSD port was done by
.An Christos Zoulas Aq christos@NetBSD.org
and
.An Jaromir Dolecek Aq jdolecek@NetBSD.org .