From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 15 16:01:51 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1CBB6112 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2015 16:01:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sola.nimnet.asn.au (paqi.nimnet.asn.au [115.70.110.159]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2B59D7D0 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2015 16:01:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sola.nimnet.asn.au (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id t0FG10YS057311; Fri, 16 Jan 2015 03:01:02 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 03:01:00 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: Thomas Mueller Subject: Re: Mount NTFS from base system? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20150116022642.L82172@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 16:01:51 -0000 In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 554, Issue 3, Message: 6 On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 21:44:45 +0000 "Thomas Mueller" wrote: > Is there anything in FreeBSD base system to mount an NTFS partition > read-only? > > I thought it was there, but couldn't find anything, searched for > "ntfs" under "man mount". > > Or is it necessary to build sysutils/fusefs-ntfs from ports even for > read-only access? > > There actually is /sbin/mount_ntfs in NetBSD, at least newer > versions, good for reading, not so good for writing, and I thought > there was something in FreeBSD like that. > > I looked in the kernel configs, including GENERIC and NOTES, found no > NTFS. I guess you're running 10.x then. I see it was gone by 10.0-R. It's still in 9.3 and so is the (very similar, by the same author) HPFS code, though you have to compile that yourself if needed, which was the case even back at 3.3-R as I recall. I managed to recover years of work from several OS/2 disks with it then; perfectly reliable as read-only. If just for recovery, you could boot a 9.3 memstick. Otherwise, FUSE. cheers, Ian