From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 9 00:17:01 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 2674016A420; Sat, 9 Feb 2008 00:17:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=b221f4d0cb79a67adde3323d735a0e6d746f75bd=605=es.net=oberman@es.net) Received: from postal1.es.net (postoffice3.tagpma.org [IPv6:2001:400:14:3::8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52B0D13C469; Sat, 9 Feb 2008 00:17:00 +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 postal3.es.net (Postal Node 3) with ESMTP (SSL) id PCZ08958; Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:16:58 -0800 Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id CE4D64501C; Fri, 8 Feb 2008 16:16:57 -0800 (PST) To: Dominic Fandrey In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:19:26 +0100." <47ACE37E.7000107@bsdforen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1202516217_29711P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:16:57 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20080209001657.CE4D64501C@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: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:17:01 -0000 --==_Exmh_1202516217_29711P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:19:26 +0100 > From: Dominic Fandrey > > Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> 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. > > Just remember that you have to recreate the link after you do an > installworld. Yes. I already have to do this for other modified stuff. (I install a new world about every other week.) Thanks again, -- 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_1202516217_29711P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFHrPD5kn3rs5h7N1ERAlR/AJ9Amd9vOoUbNei/11iKw4Kavq6N6ACeLmIE Hwx/g0z+3ncM+hmD4jXKCG4= =drJ1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1202516217_29711P--