Mount NTFS from base system?

[Polytropon]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 21:44:45 +0000 (UTC), Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Is there anything in FreeBSD base system to mount an NTFS
> partition read-only?

Not anymore.



> I thought it was there, but couldn't find anything, searched
> for "ntfs" under "man mount".

It wouldn't be mentioned there.



> Or is it necessary to build sysutils/fusefs-ntfs from ports
> even for read-only access?

As far as I know, NTFS compatibility has been removed
from the OS and is now available via FUSE, together with
many other file systems.



> There actually is /sbin/mount_ntfs in NetBSD, at least newer
> versions, good for reading, not so good for writing, and I
> thought there was something in FreeBSD like that.

FreeBSD _did_ have this functionality. Here on my (outdated)
home system I actually have /sbin/mount_ntfs, and there is
also a manpage (section 8) for it.



> I looked in the kernel configs, including GENERIC and NOTES,
> found no NTFS.

In this case, /usr/src/sbin/mount_ntfs would be the directory
to search for. But also /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES mentiones the
"option NTFS" for the kernel. You can compare this to more
recent versions of the OS and kernel sources.



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