1 TB data copy

[Monah Baki]

Hi all,

Installed the following

sysutils/fusefs-ntfs
sysutils/ntfsprogs

When I run the command

ntfs-3g /dev/da0s1 /mnt/windows

I get the error message
fuse: failed to open fuse device: No such file or directory


Thank you



> On 10/12/07, CyberLeo Kitsana <cyberleo at cyberleo.net> wrote:
>> Bill Moran wrote:
>> > In response to "Monah Baki" <mbaki at whywire.net>:
>> > I'm not completely up to speed with FreeBSD's NTFS support.  Last I
>> looked
>> > at it, it was experimental and there were warnings everywhere.  I
>> assume
>> > it's improved since then (~3 years ago) but can't say with authority.
>>
>> As I recall, the native FreeBSD NTFS support is read-only. However, the
>> NTFS-3g project has a mostly complete (and pretty safe) read/write
>> implementation as a FUSE program, which can be found in ports:
>>
>> sysutils/fusefs-ntfs
>> sysutils/ntfsprogs
>>
>
> FreeBSD NTFS is not read only, but there are restrictions on what it
> can write. To quote the man page:
>
>      There is limited writing ability.  Limitations: file must be
> nonresident
>      and must not contain any sparses (uninitialized areas); compressed
> files
>      are also not supported.  The file name must not contain multibyte
> charac-
>      ters.
>
> If your file name uses only ASCII characters, you will be probably be
> OK using mount_ntfs to write to an NTFS filesystem. I've used it for
> years, but mostly for reading files. The few times I've used it for
> writing, it worked fine. I think you are most likely to have problems
> if you use it to edit an existing file.
>
> - Bob
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