From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Nov 28 04:59:44 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36A6CDF9116 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2017 04:59:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfg@tristatelogic.com) Received: from outgoing.tristatelogic.com (segfault.tristatelogic.com [69.62.255.118]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20B8975D49 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2017 04:59:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfg@tristatelogic.com) Received: from segfault-nmh-helo.tristatelogic.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by segfault.tristatelogic.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7F313ACDA for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 20:50:46 -0800 (PST) From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Mount NTFS from "Live" system? Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 20:50:46 -0800 Message-ID: <37725.1511844646@segfault.tristatelogic.com> X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 04:59:44 -0000 Sorry. Sort of a long story, just to get to the point... One particular disk drive of mine seems to be acting up in some pretty weird ways. I think it may be starting to fail. The whole thing contains only one partition, formatted for NTFS, and when I recently tried to just cat a file that is already on there to /dev/null it took over 21 minutes to complete. (The file is only around 6GB.) This test was done on Linux/Ubuntu. Given the amount of time the file read took, something seems to be VERY wrong with this harddrive. For the life of me, I can't figure out where Ubuntu stores low-level disk error messages. I think they should appear in /var/log/kern.log, but don't see any disk errors in there. (Sigh.) So anyway, I would prefer to use FreeBSD to try to get to the bottom of this problem with this specific harddrive anyway, because I know FreeBSD rather better than Ubuntu, and I also trust it more. I just now installed 11.1-RELEASE on a USB stick and booted from that into the "Live" mode, and I was hoping to use that to try my test(s) again on the (possibly failing) harddrive, but it seems like maybe in Live mode there is no way to mount NTFS filesystems. Bummer. :-( Is that actually true? Is there an easy/fast way around it? P.S. Should I maybe file a PR, suggesting the enhancement that the "ntfs-3g" tool be included in the Live mode image? (It really does seems a pity if it ain't in there.)