From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 20 13: 2:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sasknow.com (h139-142-245-96.ss.fiberone.net [139.142.245.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B61C837C107 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 13:02:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@sasknow.com) Received: from localhost (freebsd@localhost) by sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA07616; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 15:02:51 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from freebsd@sasknow.com) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 15:02:51 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: Agent Drek Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NTFS ro mount? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Agent Drek wrote: > Are there tools/drivers to mount an NTFS volume? I just need to read > data from it. > > thanks, > man mount, for starters :-) mount -r -t ntfs /dev/specialdevice /mountpoint for example, if your ntfs filesystem is on wd1s1e (probably not :-): mkdir /ntfs mount -r -t ntfs /dev/wd1s1e /ntfs To do this automatically the next time you reboot, execute: echo '/dev/wd1s1e /ntfs ntfs ro 2 2' >> /etc/fstab This all depends on ntfs support being loaded in the kernel. If you DON'T have it statically compiled in, mount WILL load NTFS support as an LKM. If you always mount NTFS partitions, you can save a bit of time and space by adding the following line to your kernel: options NTFS ...and recompiling. Note, again, that this is NOT necessary for NTFS to function correctly. -- Ryan Thompson 50% Owner, Sysadmin SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message