Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 08:08:22 +0000 (UTC) From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mount NTFS from base system? Message-ID: <478925.90815.bm@smtp113.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <mailman.67.1421236801.75384.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <20150116022642.L82172@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <485578.59945.bm@smtp116.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <20150116002206.b48967c9.freebsd@edvax.de>
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from Polytropon and my previous post: > > I had Rod Smith's gdisk on it, and subversion, see rsync was > > not there. > You would need to install rsync from ports. I did, on later installations, both FreeBSD and NetBSD. > > I also have FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE i386 on another USB 2.0 stick, > > updating that was deterred by the fact that "make installworld" > > took 7 to 8 hours. > Yes, R/W operations on a USB stick tend to be slower > than on directly attached hard disks. :-) Maybe it was a particular allergy of FreeBSD to the particular model of USB stick? Normally, FreeBSD amd64, and NetBSD, would take about 45 minutes. > > So I could try booting those to see if I can mount NTFS read-only. > If you have FreeBSD 8 somewhere, it could also work. > Maybe you can even "go back in time" and use of the > older live system CDs (converted for USB booting) > from earlier versions (v8, probably v7 and v6) which > had mount_ntfs in the OS. Actually, I have a FreeBSD 8.2 i386 installation on an IDE hard drive, now in a Sabrent USB 2.0 enclosure, no longer possible to update on that hard drive partition. > > Just tried, from FreeBSD 9.2-STABLE amd64 USB stick, > > trying to mount_ntfs immediately crashed the system, > > I got db> prompt. > That could indicate a severe file system defect. In > worst case, you could install sysutils/ntfsprogs and > use those tools for access, or at least to obtain a > copy of the file system and work with that (instead > of with the original). Maybe it could also be an update to NTFS on Microsoft's end? File system is too big to make a full copy, no place to put it, 5 TB. But it also indicates a lack of robustness in FreeBSD 9.2. NetBSD failed to mount the partition, but didn't crash, in that case connected to a USB 2.0 port because USB 3.0 is not yet working in NetBSD. Or there could have been a defect in the NTFS. I remember the DVD that came with Seagate Business Storage NAS: readable in Linux and Haiku but no files showed in FreeBSD and NetBSD. FreeBSD 9.2 installation on USB stick is too old to be readily updatable; easier to start anew with 10-stable or 11-head. There is an osFree project at osfree.org attempting to create an open-source analogue to OS/2 Warp 4, but at the pace it's going, they will be hard-pressed to produce anything meaningful by year 4000, meaning nobody currently living onm earth will live long enough to see it. There is/was even a FreeVMS project, but that seems to have died, website no longer there. Tom
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