From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 12 17:57:53 2007 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 DA35F16A418 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:57:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mbaki@whywire.net) Received: from starfish.geekisp.com (mail.geekisp.com [216.168.135.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 808ED13C465 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:57:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mbaki@whywire.net) Received: (qmail 3960 invoked by uid 1003); 12 Oct 2007 17:57:52 -0000 Received: from wave.int.geekisp.com (HELO wave.geekisp.com) (192.168.4.33) by mail.geekisp.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 12 Oct 2007 17:57:52 -0000 Received: (from www@localhost) by wave.geekisp.com (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id l9CHvoJP049850; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:57:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mbaki@whywire.net) X-Authentication-Warning: wave.geekisp.com: www set sender to mbaki@whywire.net using -f Received: from 192.60.228.173 (proxying for 192.60.228.173) (SquirrelMail authenticated user mbaki@whywire.net) by www.geekisp.com with HTTP; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:57:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44658.192.60.228.173.1192211870.squirrel@www.geekisp.com> In-Reply-To: <54db43990710120649s222eb064td2400db50a7b8e65@mail.gmail.com> References: <3236.67.100.188.210.1192191787.squirrel@www.geekisp.com> <20071012085956.7d8faf2d.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <470F7545.5010808@cyberleo.net> <54db43990710120649s222eb064td2400db50a7b8e65@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:57:50 -0400 (EDT) From: "Monah Baki" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.10 [CVS] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Re: 1 TB data copy 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: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:57:53 -0000 Hi all, Installed the following sysutils/fusefs-ntfs sysutils/ntfsprogs When I run the command ntfs-3g /dev/da0s1 /mnt/windows I get the error message fuse: failed to open fuse device: No such file or directory Thank you > On 10/12/07, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: >> Bill Moran wrote: >> > In response to "Monah Baki" : >> > I'm not completely up to speed with FreeBSD's NTFS support. Last I >> looked >> > at it, it was experimental and there were warnings everywhere. I >> assume >> > it's improved since then (~3 years ago) but can't say with authority. >> >> As I recall, the native FreeBSD NTFS support is read-only. However, the >> NTFS-3g project has a mostly complete (and pretty safe) read/write >> implementation as a FUSE program, which can be found in ports: >> >> sysutils/fusefs-ntfs >> sysutils/ntfsprogs >> > > FreeBSD NTFS is not read only, but there are restrictions on what it > can write. To quote the man page: > > There is limited writing ability. Limitations: file must be > nonresident > and must not contain any sparses (uninitialized areas); compressed > files > are also not supported. The file name must not contain multibyte > charac- > ters. > > If your file name uses only ASCII characters, you will be probably be > OK using mount_ntfs to write to an NTFS filesystem. I've used it for > years, but mostly for reading files. The few times I've used it for > writing, it worked fine. I think you are most likely to have problems > if you use it to edit an existing file. > > - Bob > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > BSD Networking, Microsoft Notworking