From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 19 22:58:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0E3B537B400 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 22:58:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 75263 invoked by uid 100); 20 Jan 2001 06:58:10 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14953.14082.555928.845256@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 00:58:10 -0600 (CST) To: Bill Moran Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting NTFS In-Reply-To: <93887309@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Moran types: > "kave p.Ram" wrote: > > yes . I do it as root. but i wonder if GENERIC Kernel > > has support for mounting NTFS by default, or does it > > require building a custom Kernel with this feature on > > (as documented in LINT) for accessing NTFS partitions. > Good point, a quick check shows that NTFS support is NOT compiled into > the generic kernel (review /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC) but I had > thought it would load as a KLD. (I could be wrong) > Probably try compiling a new kernel with NTFS support. It looks like it's available as a loadable module. You might check to see if it's available, and kldload it by hand before trying the mount. If that works, the question is then whether mount not loading it automatically is a bug or not. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message