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From: szoli@ludens.elte.hu (Sebestyen Zoltan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NT and FreeBSD
Message-ID: <1997Jan16.103357.35940@ludens>
Date: 16 Jan 97 10:33:57 +0100
References: <5b428d$1fb@cherry.news.easynet.net> <5b6lan$q9r@uriah.heep.sax.de> <32dcd3a4.5055288@news.wineasy.se>
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In article <32dcd3a4.5055288@news.wineasy.se>, moss@wineasy.se (Moss) writes:
> j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote:
> 
>>levine@easynet.co.uk (Neil Levine) wrote:
>>
>>> I've had a hunt through the FAQ and FreeBSD homepage but I can't seem
>>> to find any reference (probably down to laziness) to NT partitions and
>>> whether FreeBSD will recognise the NTFS as a valid slice. 
>>
>>Sorry, not possible.  Did they ever document their filesystem at all?
> 
> Totally off topic, but anyway;
> Heard there was a DOS program that could read NTFS so someone besides m$
> must know....
> 
> Re
> 
> M
> 
There's a little program from OpenStep (it's a BSD, too) called vmount, 
which can mount anything Linux can mount. It requires the filesystems part 
of the Linux kernel's source tree, and may worth to port to FreeBSD.