On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:33:16 +1100 Rob Hurle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Manolis, > > Thanks very much for that very helpful reply: > > >> Now to FreeBSD. The newly formatted (as NTFS) disc appears as two > >> devices - /dev/cd0 (never seen this before) > > > > This is how a USB cdrom appears to FreeBSD - as a SCSI device. No > > problem there. > >>.... > >> cp: /usb0/MyStuff/test: No such file or directory > >> freebsd [11:08] ~# > >> > > You are using the ntfs driver that is built-in the FreeBSD kernel. This > > is read only - you will be able to read from the disc, but not write to it. > > > > In order to be able to write to this disc, install sysutils/fusefs-ntfs > > and use the ntfs-3g command to mount your disk. > > I've done that, and it looks good, but when I try to use it: > > freebsd [12:12] /usr/ports#ll /dev/da0s1 > crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 122 26 Oct 09:02 /dev/da0s1 > freebsd [12:12] /usr/ports#ntfs-3g -o rw /dev/da0s1 /mnt > fuse: failed to open fuse device: No such file or directory > > So the device is there, but ntfs-3g fails to see it. Obviously > mount_ntfs sees it OK, from my previous experiments. ntfs-3g.probe > exits with no errors, so it appears that it can see it OK: > > freebsd [12:32] ~#ntfs-3g.probe --readwrite /dev/da0s1 > freebsd [12:32] ~# > > Is there something else that I need to install? > > > If you are not going to use the disc to transfer data between Windows > > and FreeBSD, I would advise you to repartition the disk and create an > > NTFS partition for your windows data and a FreeBSD partition in UFS > > Unfortunately, this is not the case. I need to transfer between > FreeBSD and Windows, both ways :-( Thanks again. > Hi, is the kernel module /usr/local/modules/ fuse.ko loaded ? Daniel ----- _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
