Can I Mount A Windoze Drive?

[Jerry McAllister]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 04:50:57AM -0800, Drew Jenkins wrote:

> Here is the dialogue:
> # mount_ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt/win
> #mount_ntfs: /mnt No such file or directory
> Drew

I haven't followed all of this, but do you have a directoty
named /mnt/win

For my dual booted machine, I create a directory:  /mydos
  mkdir /mydos
and mount it there.   Mine is FAT32 on this machine because I
want to both read and write it (I converted the ntfs to FAT32 with
the Partition Magic utility).    Then I put the following in my /etc/fstab

  /dev/ad0s2          /mydos        msdosfs rw        0     0

and then when I want it mounted, I just do:
  mount /mydos
and it works just fine.
That seems the easiest way to keep it.

But, your error message looks like it is complaining of just
what it says:   there is either not a /mnt or not a /mnt/win
So, if that is true, make sure those directories - or whichever
one[s] you choose to use exist before try the mount.

I suppose that could also be a permissions problem or even a
security level issue if you have mucked with that.

////jerry


> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Martin Tournoij <carpetsmoker at xs4all.nl>
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Cc: drewjenkinsjr at yahoo.com
> Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 3:51:25 PM
> Subject: Re: Can I Mount A Windoze Drive?
> 
> On Sun 18 Feb 2007 07:02, Drew Jenkins wrote:
> > For some reason, I can no longer mount the Windoze drive! The first time I mounted it, I didn't even change the fstab! I just issued the command:
> > mount_ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt/win
> > and it mounted! I copied off everything I thought I needed. But when I tried to go back in, that didn't work. So I added the line suggested below to /etc/fstab and I still can't mount it! Rebooting doesn't help. What am I missing?
> > TIA,
> > Drew
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Martin Tournoij <carpetsmoker at xs4all.nl>
> > To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Cc: drewjenkinsjr at yahoo.com
> > Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 3:10:22 AM
> > Subject: Re: Can I Mount A Windoze Drive?
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat 17 Feb 2007 13:02, Drew Jenkins wrote:
> > > Newbie question here. I just want to make sure I don't screw anything up. I have two hard drives in my box...one for Windoze, one for FBSD. Can I mount the former from FBSD and copy over files? Do I navigate it just like a FBSD disk..."cd", "cp", etc?
> > > TIA,
> > > Drew
> > 
> > FreeBSD comes with a readonly ntfs driver.
> > 
> > Assuming your windows partition is ad0s1
> > mount_ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt/win
> > 
> > fstab entry:
> > /dev/ad0s1 /mnt/win ntfs  ro,noauto 0 0
> > 
> > You can then copy stuff, for example:
> > cp /mnt/win/Documents\ and\ Settings/carpetsmoker/Desktop ~/
> > 
> > If you want read support, you might want to try ntfsprogs
> > (sysutils/ntfsprogs), which has some basic (EXPERIMENTAL!) read
> > support.
> 
> Does mount give some kind error?
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