From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Nov 29 22:04:37 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 3B730DEB34C for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2017 22:04:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail@ozzmosis.com) Received: from homiemail-a115.g.dreamhost.com (sub5.mail.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.129]) (using TLSv1.1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2259C6698A for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2017 22:04:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail@ozzmosis.com) Received: from homiemail-a115.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a115.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E64F1807762E; Wed, 29 Nov 2017 14:04:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=ozzmosis.com; h=date:from :to:cc:subject:message-id:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to; s=ozzmosis.com; bh=DHEgWwkxkzXM+pYyZctSWgpUqHY=; b=oPytSvbdom3e kYb+rAKPfESS7uBC6kKnzhn7/hgX0v20NhdZO+uBBTS3RB3B7cb7OBngDvexiSjV Xs0jaiT0Yc1D0H+Uu2LDK7Full0+WZfEKGA8nN6HbyqsxPNOBPWjgTdiY0vadlGO MV3z2mIBn/V2Nmm0ThUDOTikIboA5HA= Received: from blizzard.ozzmosis.com (210-84-29-66.dyn.iinet.net.au [210.84.29.66]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: relay@ozzmosis.com) by homiemail-a115.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 59E4F1807762C; Wed, 29 Nov 2017 14:04:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by blizzard.ozzmosis.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1A0945D0; Thu, 30 Nov 2017 09:04:27 +1100 (AEDT) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 09:04:26 +1100 From: andrew clarke To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mount NTFS from "Live" system? Message-ID: <20171129220426.277zfvzwlmoyyy5t@ozzmosis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <37725.1511844646@segfault.tristatelogic.com> <47545.1511991173@segfault.tristatelogic.com> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20171027 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: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 22:04:37 -0000 On Mon 2017-11-27 20:50:46 UTC-0800, Ronald F. Guilmette (rfg@tristatelogic.com) wrote: > 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.) Ubuntu sends disk errors to /var/log/syslog, I believe. On Wed 2017-11-29 13:32:53 UTC-0800, Ronald F. Guilmette (rfg@tristatelogic.com) wrote: > In this case, having a FreeBSD "live" system with support for NTFS may > perhaps not have gotten me to the ultimate resolution of the problem any > faster, but I still do think that it would be a Good Idea to include the > ntfs-3g thingy in the normative release images... because you never know > when this might be a great help. > > Then again, perhaps if I had just started with a mini/memstick image then > I could perhaps have loaded ntfs-3g, over the net, into the "live" system. > Would that have worked? I dunno. I didn't try it. Does anybody know? I suspect something along the lines of: pkg install fusefs-ntfs mount_ntfs-3g -o ro /dev/da0s1 /mnt would've worked.