From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 26 02:14:09 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D02CB106566B for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:14:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dcdowse@gmx.net) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 07F848FC0A for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:14:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 26 Oct 2009 02:14:07 -0000 Received: from p4FD4ED8A.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO bytebox) [79.212.237.138] by mail.gmx.net (mp049) with SMTP; 26 Oct 2009 03:14:07 +0100 X-Authenticated: #30106961 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1//bMIS2t3/MIMqpwdasdQJwE49I4Ln+lmuWR39tR BT41HlhEENBpaw Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:14:06 +0100 From: "Daniel C. Dowse" To: rob1940@gmail.com Message-Id: <20091026031406.83a48307.dcdowse@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: References: <4AE4EE38.4050609@otenet.gr> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i386-unknown-freebsd7.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.6 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WD External Disc Drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:14:09 -0000 On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:33:16 +1100 Rob Hurle wrote: > Hi Manolis, >=20 > Thanks very much for that very helpful reply: >=20 > >> =A0 Now to FreeBSD. =A0The newly formatted (as NTFS) disc appears as t= wo > >> devices - /dev/cd0 (never seen this before) > > > > This is how a USB cdrom appears to FreeBSD - as a SCSI device. No > > problem there. > >>.... > >> cp: /usb0/MyStuff/test: No such file or directory > >> freebsd [11:08] ~# > >> > > You are using the ntfs driver that is built-in the FreeBSD kernel. This > > is read only - you will be able to read from the disc, but not write to= it. > > > > In order to be able to write to this disc, install sysutils/fusefs-ntfs > > and use the ntfs-3g command to mount your disk. >=20 > I've done that, and it looks good, but when I try to use it: >=20 > freebsd [12:12] /usr/ports#ll /dev/da0s1 > crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 122 26 Oct 09:02 /dev/da0s1 > freebsd [12:12] /usr/ports#ntfs-3g -o rw /dev/da0s1 /mnt > fuse: failed to open fuse device: No such file or directory >=20 > So the device is there, but ntfs-3g fails to see it. Obviously > mount_ntfs sees it OK, from my previous experiments. ntfs-3g.probe > exits with no errors, so it appears that it can see it OK: >=20 > freebsd [12:32] ~#ntfs-3g.probe --readwrite /dev/da0s1 > freebsd [12:32] ~# >=20 > Is there something else that I need to install? >=20 > > If you are not going to use the disc to transfer data between Windows > > and FreeBSD, I would advise you to repartition the disk and create an > > NTFS partition for your windows data and a FreeBSD partition in UFS >=20 > Unfortunately, this is not the case. I need to transfer between > FreeBSD and Windows, both ways :-( Thanks again. >=20 Hi,=20 is the kernel module /usr/local/modules/ fuse.ko loaded ? =20 Daniel -----