Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 13:41:47 +0100 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org> To: Frank Leonhardt <frank2@fjl.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting NTFS on 10.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <20140123134147.4aa953f1@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> In-Reply-To: <52E0362B.8090800@fjl.co.uk> References: <52DEC1F2.1040008@fjl.co.uk> <20140122125312.34ff36f4@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <52E0362B.8090800@fjl.co.uk>
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On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 21:20:43 +0000 Frank Leonhardt wrote: > On 22/01/2014 11:53, Tijl Coosemans wrote: >> On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:52:34 +0000 Frank Leonhardt wrote: >>> I new I was in for trouble when mount_ntfs wasn't found... >>> >>> Okay, I need to mount an NTFS volume on FreeBSD 10.0 (on ZFS if it >>> matters). Unfortunately there doesn't look to be an NTFS module any >>> more. 'sfunny, as I thought putting FUSE in the base system was supposed >>> to interface to anything. It probably does, but I just don't know how >>> and I'm in a hurry. Reading the obvious manual pages isn't any help, so >>> I need a non-obvious one, no doubt. As this has whole FUSE business has >>> been in flux, all the pages I Google are out-of-date. >>> >>> I might suggest that when commands like mount_ntfs are removed for the >>> base that they be replaced by a script to print out some help. >> Try the sysutils/fusefs-ntfs port. > Thanks! That's just what I needed - I tried looking for a port and > couldn't find it. > > I just compiled it, but it said... > ================================================================ > *** Error code 70 > > Stop. > make[1]: stopped in /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-ntfs > *** Error code 1 > > Stop. > make: stopped in /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-ntfs > ================================================================ > > I'd tried using sysutils/ntfsprogs earlier (amongst a LOT of other > things) and it looks like they're not friends. I *did* try to find the > ntfs-3g port - should have guessed it was actually called fusefs-ntfs. > > For anyone else looking for the solution, DON'T install > sysutils/ntfsprogs (or if you do, "make deinstall"), and do build > sysutils/fusefs-ntfs. > > Then don't kid yourself that mount_ntfs is going to work :-) > > What does work is: > > Add 'fusefs_enable="YES"' to /etc/rc.conf > Add 'fuse_load=YES' to /boot/loader.conf > > Reboot and then mount your USB NTFS volume thus: > > ntfs-3g /dev/da0s1 /mnt > > Obviously altering da0s1 to suit. > > I'm not 100% sure that the lines in rc.conf and loader.conf are > necessary but the machine's busy and I can't reboot it to find out. I > shall document this at some point, when I've figured out how to get it > to work the old way - i.e. mount_ntfs - but I'm posting this here in > case anyone else has having the same trouble. Incidentally, mount -t > ntfs-3g... doesn't do it. There's mount_fusefs.
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