My appologies, i am indeed using GENERIC, I did think that perhaps it did not support ntfs, but then i also thought it would be rather absent minded to have included mount_ntfs if support was not included, thus since i had mount_ntfs, i assumed i had support for it.
I will look into adding ntfs support to my kernel On 24/04/2008, jmc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Lord Sporkton [Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 02:32:37PM -0700]: ---7 > > > I have an NTFS drive attached via USB that was previously attached to > > an XP home system > > > [ ... ] > > > > # mount -t ntfs -r /dev/sd0i /mnt/usb2 > > mount_ntfs: /dev/sd0i on /mnt/usb2: Operation not supported > > > you don't say if7you're using a GENERIC kernel or not, but from: > > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#foreignfs > > > Once you have determined which partition it is you want to use, you can > > move to the final step: mounting the filesystem contained in it. Most > > filesystems are supported in the GENERIC kernel: just have a look at the > > kernel configuration file, located in the /usr/src/sys/arch/<arch>/conf > > directory. However, some are not, e.g. the NTFS support is experimental > > and therefore not included in GENERIC. If you want to use one of the > > filesystems not supported in GENERIC, you will need to build a custom > > kernel. > > -- -Lawrence
