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From: ez064008@chip.ucdavis.edu (David O'Brien)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NT and FreeBSD
Date: 18 Jan 1997 00:28:53 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) 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?

Actually they did to some extent.  There was a small book ($10 in the US
-- quite cheep for a comptuer book) purly on the NTFS.  There is also
documentation on the features and some of the layout in the MS TechNet
cdroms.
 
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-- David    (deobrien@ucdavis.edu)