Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:33:16 +1100 From: Rob Hurle <rob1940@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WD External Disc Drive Message-ID: <aab0909a0910251833t4482bcfvcb09042cb17d1944@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4AE4EE38.4050609@otenet.gr> References: <aab0909a0910251718q4dc26baeu7c0a452add98d783@mail.gmail.com> <4AE4EE38.4050609@otenet.gr>
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Hi Manolis, Thanks very much for that very helpful reply: >> =C2=A0 Now to FreeBSD. =C2=A0The newly formatted (as NTFS) disc appears = as two >> devices - /dev/cd0 (never seen this before) > > This is how a USB cdrom appears to FreeBSD - as a SCSI device. No > problem there. >>.... >> cp: /usb0/MyStuff/test: No such file or directory >> freebsd [11:08] ~# >> > You are using the ntfs driver that is built-in the FreeBSD kernel. This > is read only - you will be able to read from the disc, but not write to i= t. > > In order to be able to write to this disc, install sysutils/fusefs-ntfs > and use the ntfs-3g command to mount your disk. I've done that, and it looks good, but when I try to use it: freebsd [12:12] /usr/ports#ll /dev/da0s1 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 122 26 Oct 09:02 /dev/da0s1 freebsd [12:12] /usr/ports#ntfs-3g -o rw /dev/da0s1 /mnt fuse: failed to open fuse device: No such file or directory So the device is there, but ntfs-3g fails to see it. Obviously mount_ntfs sees it OK, from my previous experiments. ntfs-3g.probe exits with no errors, so it appears that it can see it OK: freebsd [12:32] ~#ntfs-3g.probe --readwrite /dev/da0s1 freebsd [12:32] ~# Is there something else that I need to install? > If you are not going to use the disc to transfer data between Windows > and FreeBSD, I would advise you to repartition the disk and create an > NTFS partition for your windows data and a FreeBSD partition in UFS Unfortunately, this is not the case. I need to transfer between FreeBSD and Windows, both ways :-( Thanks again. Rob Hurle --=20 ----------------------------- Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language e-mail: rob1940@gmail.com Telephone (ANU): +61 2 6125 3169 Mobile (in VN): +84 948 243 538 (Currently in Australia) Mobile (in OZ): +61 417 293 603 (Currently in Australia) -----------------------------
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