From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 15 22:08:27 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3A23E929 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2015 22:08:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm7-vm9.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com (nm7-vm9.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com [216.39.63.245]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0415F7D7 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2015 22:08:26 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bellsouth.net; s=s2048; t=1421359515; bh=DQRIwBDTHj2i8FFrgBM5ZrrwiJL8zABATaerUN/fExc=; h=Date:From:To:References:Subject:From:Subject; b=mzn4tKr8Z+Lp25Q8Qisf4lm0w5h5asnGPpFd9oAs8wK0rqyiXvx7tSBcCvON+oLLc5XxgaftXKmNW5jbM0BntX2/KNDbvcDiIdknXjebpccepOgh0NAYTRd9IHKUkXqQGjGu9c+dyRsAYKELsloN0fdOlMrQPpJvq374LGeLP8lsaMGQMChwnMia5uXJ0VVw7PAJqFb1YXPq5+mdoSrmthJrF8aFiEerrq09ZsZdKmoFoBmEmQcHPWVyzOi775n470wDvi8BgxozVl8mEWnk72tPtvYY0imUVuztR9WZVIy1ktoNpoCxfqaIgf0DIWz4YocPZ4EotsqwWSmtzee+aw== Received: from [216.39.60.166] by nm7.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Jan 2015 22:05:15 -0000 Received: from [98.138.104.96] by tm2.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Jan 2015 22:05:15 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp116.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Jan 2015 22:05:15 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 485578.59945.bm@smtp116.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com Message-ID: <485578.59945.bm@smtp116.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 22:05:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: t4UJh88VM1myzVEc_4yG7glLV4D2c3VoNAgnako.lfykv2s Qxm1GU2e3g9CfynUuD_xLvYI1pyA3lnDDHtw39F5nbqjX8GLDINFhlRenA6L 6cw8PTcxc.ENxG4.TvgU95KS8rWG2pGbpUHM2mlZyvPcYQKEIgFvgtinyHCO awvmM1z1dp0h3nWeuICkpMwE8__XWTeaB6nCvhu7XVOwPi7zyW0MXWw7RPaQ ylE8XYRxpN4zrUvRKMcZ00PrXT9EjGLcsUn0cdiHN48zUe8PYKg9HI0htA0U a6IguWm7kBq0v3G2z5oopUQc5bH35RBwhRg_eyUdZx.rN6i98eONsJ.slP.B Lk7AMswD0PReN6jnHTw.HpxF0aTtv0gZRxqqj6fKysDvjAfmUcRz7N8J21E_ .86XOKxW4Y.64_NkDtG7yzp..L5ERCtZ3VbEndVD2i2qx1g7Pkus9C_I9MVm wu_KZXQcEz3d11qCDwyY03eV0R0bASXx9fEnbxLln2kIjs.UkJdkRrt2Btcq RvHdmnx5eOgZCEhguyo9gjcOphDTjyVuPpigjQ0wxwA1fH14u3iaDPsB2KmE - X-Yahoo-SMTP: Kz_aW1.swBBYof3zAD7.RWzXz9ZAQVDMml1VADsbgPT4Kq79LC0- From: "Thomas Mueller" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20150116022642.L82172@sola.nimnet.asn.au> Subject: Re: Mount NTFS from base system? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 22:08:27 -0000 > 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