From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 8 23:14:09 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A20416A419; Fri, 8 Feb 2008 23:14:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=b221f4d0cb79a67adde3323d735a0e6d746f75bd=605=es.net=oberman@es.net) Received: from postal1.es.net (postoffice4.tagpma.org [IPv6:2001:400:6000:1::66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BF9413C465; Fri, 8 Feb 2008 23:14:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=b221f4d0cb79a67adde3323d735a0e6d746f75bd=605=es.net=oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by postal4.es.net (Postal Node 4) with ESMTP (SSL) id OZW17005; Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:14:05 -0800 Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id B52464500E; Fri, 8 Feb 2008 15:14:03 -0800 (PST) To: Dominic Fandrey In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:11:37 +0100." <47ACD399.6040208@bsdforen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1202512443_29711P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:14:03 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20080208231403.B52464500E@ptavv.es.net> X-Sender-IP: 198.128.4.29 X-Sender-Domain: es.net X-Recipent: ;;; X-Sender: X-To_Name: Dominic Fandrey X-To_Domain: bsdforen.de X-To: Dominic Fandrey X-To_Email: kamikaze@bsdforen.de X-To_Alias: kamikaze Cc: questions@freebsd.org, flz@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to mount partition with ntfs-3g 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, 08 Feb 2008 23:14:09 -0000 --==_Exmh_1202512443_29711P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:11:37 +0100 > From: Dominic Fandrey > > Kevin Oberman wrote: > > I would love to be able to mount my NTFS partition R/W, but the FreeBSD > > NTFS support is read-only (or almost read-only), so I installed > > fusefs-ntfs which I thought would allow this. > > > > After installation (which also pulled in fusefs-kmod, fusefs-libs, and > > libublio), I added fusefs_enable="yes" to my rc.conf. Then, after > > starting fusefs (which means loading the fuse kernel module), I tried: > > # mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/ad0s1 /C > > mount: /dev/ad0 : Operation not supported by device > > > > I got the same message for a USB drive on /dev/da0. > > > > Documentation on ntfs-3g is pretty limited. Did I miss something? I > > really rather not convert my new USB disk to FAT32 if I don't have to. > > mount only calls a couple of file systems in the old fashioned way. One of > them is ntfs. What I did to be able to mount NTFS systems with mount -t > (obligatory if you want to use fstab to mount), I did the following: > > # mv /sbin/mount_ntfs /sbin/mount_ntfs.bak > # ln -s /usr/sbin/mount_ntfs-3g /sbin/mount_ntfs > > This is one of my /etc/fstab entries > /dev/ntfs/2vault /mnt/vault ntfs rw,late,gid=5,umask=113,dmask=002 0 0 > Cool! This is exactly what I was looking for. Since mount_ntfs-3g was installed, I assumed that it would work with nmount, but I guess not. Thanks very much! I think that this will solve all of my ntfs issues for a while. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --==_Exmh_1202512443_29711P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFHrOI7kn3rs5h7N1ERAh1RAJ0c4bIpz1DF8haoPCxXpkf+nAj8MACgul3i JpOo2bbo+p3CE0RuTd7+ai0= =I5g1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1202512443_29711P--