Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:14:03 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, flz@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to mount partition with ntfs-3g Message-ID: <20080208231403.B52464500E@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:11:37 %2B0100." <47ACD399.6040208@bsdforen.de>
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--==_Exmh_1202512443_29711P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:11:37 +0100 > From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> > > Kevin Oberman wrote: > > I would love to be able to mount my NTFS partition R/W, but the FreeBSD > > NTFS support is read-only (or almost read-only), so I installed > > fusefs-ntfs which I thought would allow this. > > > > After installation (which also pulled in fusefs-kmod, fusefs-libs, and > > libublio), I added fusefs_enable="yes" to my rc.conf. Then, after > > starting fusefs (which means loading the fuse kernel module), I tried: > > # mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/ad0s1 /C > > mount: /dev/ad0 : Operation not supported by device > > > > I got the same message for a USB drive on /dev/da0. > > > > Documentation on ntfs-3g is pretty limited. Did I miss something? I > > really rather not convert my new USB disk to FAT32 if I don't have to. > > mount only calls a couple of file systems in the old fashioned way. One of > them is ntfs. What I did to be able to mount NTFS systems with mount -t > (obligatory if you want to use fstab to mount), I did the following: > > # mv /sbin/mount_ntfs /sbin/mount_ntfs.bak > # ln -s /usr/sbin/mount_ntfs-3g /sbin/mount_ntfs > > This is one of my /etc/fstab entries > /dev/ntfs/2vault /mnt/vault ntfs rw,late,gid=5,umask=113,dmask=002 0 0 > Cool! This is exactly what I was looking for. Since mount_ntfs-3g was installed, I assumed that it would work with nmount, but I guess not. Thanks very much! I think that this will solve all of my ntfs issues for a while. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --==_Exmh_1202512443_29711P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFHrOI7kn3rs5h7N1ERAh1RAJ0c4bIpz1DF8haoPCxXpkf+nAj8MACgul3i JpOo2bbo+p3CE0RuTd7+ai0= =I5g1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1202512443_29711P--
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