Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 23:09:41 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mount NTFS from base system? Message-ID: <20150113230941.32913d3d.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <520168.16377.bm@smtp118.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <520168.16377.bm@smtp118.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 21:44:45 +0000 (UTC), Thomas Mueller wrote: > Is there anything in FreeBSD base system to mount an NTFS > partition read-only? Not anymore. > I thought it was there, but couldn't find anything, searched > for "ntfs" under "man mount". It wouldn't be mentioned there. > Or is it necessary to build sysutils/fusefs-ntfs from ports > even for read-only access? As far as I know, NTFS compatibility has been removed from the OS and is now available via FUSE, together with many other file systems. > 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. FreeBSD _did_ have this functionality. Here on my (outdated) home system I actually have /sbin/mount_ntfs, and there is also a manpage (section 8) for it. > I looked in the kernel configs, including GENERIC and NOTES, > found no NTFS. In this case, /usr/src/sbin/mount_ntfs would be the directory to search for. But also /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES mentiones the "option NTFS" for the kernel. You can compare this to more recent versions of the OS and kernel sources. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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