Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 12:58:04 -0400 From: "Ralph M. Los" <Ralph@boundariez.com> To: "Josh Paetzel" <friar_josh@tcbug.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Mounting a NTFS (read-only) disk... Message-ID: <B06CC0370BBC0F4EA588FD6952A93925022968@tenacious.boundariez.com>
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-----Original Message----- From: Josh Paetzel [mailto:friar_josh@tcbug.org] Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 12:56 PM To: Ralph M. Los Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting a NTFS (read-only) disk... On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 12:46:41PM -0400, Ralph M. Los wrote: > Hi, > I've got my FreeBSD box as a file-server. I added in a 60gb disk I > want to copy the data off of, and format for FreeBSD, slice out, etc. > When I go to /stand/sysinstall and try to label "ad5" (the added 60gb > disk), I get an error. I go to Label, and select "Mount Point" by > pressing "m", and get this error: > > Fatal Error: Bogus partition under cursor??? - PRESS ANY KEY TO QUIT > > after which it promptly throws me back to my prompt, erroring out of > sysinstall. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a better way to > mount that disk read-only for now? > > Thanks all in advance. not sure if this is what you want, but here's what I 'think' you might be looking for: mkdir /dos mount_ntfs -r /dev/ad5s0 /dos Hope this helps. Josh Paetzel -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Josh - like a charm. The -r option didn't work though, complained about being an illegal option. I guess I'll just try and NOT write to it :) Thankshelp
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