usb portable drive (ntfs) issues

[gahn]

thanks.

ok, that was my mistake for that "mdntfs". it should be "ntfs".

best

--- On Sat, 2/26/11, illoai at gmail.com <illoai at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: illoai at gmail.com <illoai at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: usb portable drive (ntfs) issues
> To: "gahn" <ipfreak at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "freebsd general questions" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Date: Saturday, February 26, 2011, 11:00 PM
> On 26 February 2011 22:23, gahn
> <ipfreak at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > hi all gurus:
> >
> > for usb external drive, i followed the handbook:
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/usb-disks.html
> >
> > but i have some problems for mounting a portable usb
> external drive:
> >
> > 1) when i plugged in, /dev/da0s1 appears:
> >
> > ip at hotty:/var/log:$ ls -al /dev/da0s1
> > crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0, 108 Feb 26
> 22:05 /dev/da0s1
> >
> > but i can't mount it:
> >
> > hotty# mount -t  mdntfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/mlu
> > mount: /dev/da0s1 : Operation not supported by device
> >
> 
> I am wholly unfamiliar with mdntfs, so I'll assume you
> meant to type ntfs.  In any case, you probably have
> to
> mount it read-only (unless you install
> sysutils/fusefs-ntfs)
> as FreeBSD does not support writing to ntfs by default.
> 
> Fat32 is still the only viable solution for (nearly) full
> portability.
> 
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