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From: loewis@cs.tu-berlin.de (Martin v.Loewis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NT and FreeBSD
Date: 10 Jan 1997 20:04:51 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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In article <5b428d$1fb@cherry.news.easynet.net>,
Neil Levine <levine@easynet.co.uk> 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. 

The Linux NTFS driver has some FreeBSD support as well, but this is
not finished and mostly untested. So I guess the answer is no.

>(Soon to be FreeBSD user after getting fed up with Linux)

Oops. I'm sorry I mentioned Linux.

Regards,
Martin