> Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:19:26 +0100 > From: Dominic Fandrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:11:37 +0100 > >> From: Dominic Fandrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > >> 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. > > Just remember that you have to recreate the link after you do an > installworld.
Yes. I already have to do this for other modified stuff. (I install a new world about every other week.) Thanks again, -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
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