I believe NTFS is read only on *BSD.

On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 11:44 PM Peter Nicolai Mathias Hansteen <
[email protected]> wrote:

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> > 2. sep. 2020 kl. 07:33 skrev Predrag Punosevac <[email protected]>:
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> > Hi All,
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> > I am using my desktop
> >
> > predrag@oko$ uname -a
> > OpenBSD oko.int.bagdala2.net 6.7 GENERIC.MP#5 amd64
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> > to create a bootable Windows 10 USB flash drive. It is a paid job
> > although I would not be surprised that my consent to do it, is
> > consistent with the early signs of dementia. I just wasted a few hours
> > of my life to find out that install.wim is too large to be written on
> > Fat32 file system as described in this article
> >
> >
> https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-installer-files-too-big-for-usb-flash-drive-heres-the-fix/
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> Urgh. I’s probably due to the lack of a useful dd analogue that they make
> users jump through hoops like that.
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> Otherwise my initial reaction before reading the article was ‘just use
> dd’, but that would be totally foreign territory to most Windows admins
> most likely.
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> But I agree with Aaron that the other workaround would be to format the
> USB drive as NTFS to start with, that would not be subject to the 4GB file
> size restriction. Just how good the NTFS support is in OpenBSD I have no
> personal experience with, though.
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> All the best,
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> —
> Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
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