Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 22:05:15 +0000 (UTC) From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mount NTFS from base system? Message-ID: <485578.59945.bm@smtp116.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <mailman.67.1421236801.75384.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <20150116022642.L82172@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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> from Ian Smith: > > There actually is /sbin/mount_ntfs in NetBSD, at least newer > > versions, good for reading, not so good for writing, and I thought > > there was something in FreeBSD like that. > > I looked in the kernel configs, including GENERIC and NOTES, found no > NTFS. > I guess you're running 10.x then. I see it was gone by 10.0-R. > It's still in 9.3 and so is the (very similar, by the same author) HPFS > code, though you have to compile that yourself if needed, which was the > case even back at 3.3-R as I recall. I managed to recover years of work > from several OS/2 disks with it then; perfectly reliable as read-only. > If just for recovery, you could boot a 9.3 memstick. Otherwise, FUSE. > cheers, Ian I have a USB-stick installation of FreeBSD 9.2-STABLE from when I had this FreeBSD version installed on Western Digital Green hard drive that went bad. I had Rod Smith's gdisk on it, and subversion, see rsync was not there. I also have FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE i386 on another USB 2.0 stick, updating that was deterred by the fact that "make installworld" took 7 to 8 hours. So I could try booting those to see if I can mount NTFS read-only. Just tried, from FreeBSD 9.2-STABLE amd64 USB stick, trying to mount_ntfs immediately crashed the system, I got db> prompt. I also tried an older NetBSD-current (6.99.44 i386) where all I had installed was modular (pkgsrc) Xorg that never would start, and I got invalid argument, but no crash. I figured if I crashed this NetBSD installation and really trashed it, nothing would be lost. Using FreeBSD-current amd64, I installed fusefs-ntfs but still was not able to mount, though I could run ntfsls. Strangely, ntfscp seems designed to copy to but not from NTFS partition. I guess this calls for starting a new thread on freebsd-ports, since fusefs-ntfs is a port not in base system. Then I would show more details. I never knew FreeBSD had any capability for reading HPFS, though Linux has this capability. I ran OS/2 from v1.3 (16-bit) to Warp 4 Fixpack 12, then it crashed during the single-digit days of April 2001. CHKDSK, running automatically on reboot, ran amok and trashed the installation. Subsequently, I was never able to boot OS/2 again, even from the installation/maintenance floppies. I imagine, by now, OS/2, or now eComStation, has fallen far behind FreeBSD and NetBSD for hardware support. Tom
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