ntfs mount

J. W. Ballantine jwb at homer.att.com
Thu May 6 11:49:45 PDT 2004


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>  Date:  Thu, 06 May 2004 19:28:27 +0100
>  To:  freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>  From:  Mark Ovens <mark at ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
>  Subject:  Re: ntfs mount
>
>  J. W. Ballantine wrote:
>  
>  > Ok, either I'm missing something very basic or....
>  > 
>  > I'm trying to mount a w2k ntfs file system with: mount_ntfs
>  > /dev/ad0s1 /C and I get back: mount_ntfs: /dev/ad0s1: Invalid
>  > Argument
>  > 
>  
>  Is the filesystem you are trying to mount the first _primary_ partition
>  on the first (i.e. the one jumpered Master) hard disk?

yes, there is only one hard disk.

>  
>  > I'm told this is an ntfs5 file system, could it be that
>  
>  IIRC, W2K uses NTFS4; NTFS5 is XP.
>  
>  > FreeBSD doesn't grok this type of fs
>  
>  Yes, it does.
>  
>  > or am I missing something really basic??
>  > 
>  
>  Possibly, depends on the answer to the location of the filesystem.
>  
>  > For ad0 there is only s1,s2,s3,s4; nots5 or above.
>  > 
>  > This is on a 4.10-prerelease system.
>  > 
>  > Thanks for any and all thoughts
>  > 
>  > Jim
>  > 
>  > 
>  > 
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