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From: Todd C. Miller <millert@courtesan.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Other file system support
Date: 11 Mar 1997 09:20:24 -0700
Organization: Courtesan Consulting
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From the keyboard of frankjr@cs.stanford.edu (Frank A Busalacchi jr):
> 	If OpenBSD is installed on a i386 System that has DOS, & NT
> installed also, is OpenBSD capable of read/write the NT and DOS
> partitions/drives located in the system?

DOS yes, NT no.  There is currently no ntfs support.  DOS filesystem
support is quite good (at least I've not had problems with it).
In fact, I have my disk's DOS partition in /etc/fstab (gets
fsck'd on boot as well). :-)

 - todd
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     Todd C. Miller    Sysadmin/Consultant     Todd.Miller@courtesan.com