Mounting a pendrive formated in NTFS

This is my experience mounting a pendrive in ntfs.
The objetive is share with others that are begining in FreeBSD world.
When you has a pendrive with partitions in NTFS you need that the system recognize it.
So, first, install fusefs-ntfs:
You can do that of two forms,
Using a package: pkg install fusefs-ntfs.
Using ports: In /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-ntfs.
make install clean.

You has been installed, now you can mount the pendrive.
. With the pendrive in an usb port: gpart show. This command show all disks in system.
It show the name and number. Anothe form is with ls /dev.
Device name must be like ada0
ada0s1
ada1
adas1.
Once you identified the device, you can mount:
As root #ntfs-3g /dev/ada1s1 /media.

And that's all.
 
Since it may not be obvious to new users: pick EITHER ports or packages. Packages are suggested for new users until they use the system for a while and understand things. Mixing ports and packages can have ugly side effects because the dependency versions can be completely different.

There are also auto-mounting applications out there: my favorite is sysutils/automount. I am not sure if automount will do NTFS volumes as I do not have any so can't speak to their use.
 
You can make a directory in /media . For example.
#mkdir /media/usb.

and later.
#ntfs-3g /dev/ada1s1 /media/usb.
 
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