mounting ntfs portion of hard drive

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BJwojnowski

I have a dual boot system on a Toshiba Laptop L665. It is Windows 7 home premium and FreeBSD 9.1 release. How do I get an accurate list of the partitions on the hard drive when I am using the FreeBSD half? I have tried gpart show -l but when I try to use mount_ntfs I am told there is no such filesystem. The command I type in is mount_ntfs /dev/ada2 /mnt.
 
Try gpart list or gpart status. If you still can't mount that partition, post the output of that command. But I guess you should type ada2s1 instead of ada2.
 
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Yes, gpart list identifies the NTFS portion of the drive as ada0s2. However, in the Xfce4 window manager, when I go to a terminal window, type in su and the password, and the command mount_ntfs /dev/ada0s2 /mnt, I am given the reply
Code: 
operation not permitted

I am trying to access the NTFS portion of the drive so that I can copy some files and place them in the FreeBSD portion of the drive.
 
Could you please show us the output of gpart list and file /dev/ada0s2?

I am trying to access the NTFS portion of the drive so that I can copy some files and place them in the FreeBSD portion of the drive.
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You can't mount an NTFS partition as rw using mount_ntfs. However there is sysutils/fusefs-ntfs that lets you mount an NTFS partition as rw. But don't use that. Because that port is a reverse-engineered tool. It's better to use a FAT partition.
 
If you hit "<ctrl> + <alt> + <F1>" keys, it will take you to tty0 screen where dmesg+ output is displayed (dmesg+ because tty0 shows more than what is logged in dmesg)

mount will show details of the mount error in tty0 like needs file-check, etc.
 
If I'm right understood your issue, here is few steps to solve it.

# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-ntfs && make BATCH=yes install clean

You will need src-all in your /etc/scr. You can find examples here (in Rus, sorry).

Then add to /etc/rc.conf:

Code: 
fusefs_enable="YES"

Now run it:

# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/fusefs start

Now - make dir for NTFS partition, for example:

# mkdir /mnt/ntfs

Now - you can mount your NTFS in rw mode:

# ntfs-3g -o rw,locale=ru_RU.UTF-8 /dev/ada0s3 /mnt/ntfs

Change locale to yours :)

After all - add to /etc/fstab:

Code: 
/dev/ada0s3     /mnt/ntfs       ntfs-3g rw,late,locale=ru_RU.UTF-8, mountprog=/usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g 0       0
 
setevoy said:
# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-ntfs && make BATCH=yes install clean
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Please do not use BATCH routinely. It prevents the port from asking for options, and is for use when compiling things in batch mode.

You will need src-all in your /etc/scr. You can find examples here (in Rus, sorry).
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CVS will eventually go away for source. Time to switch to SVN. freebsd-update(8) can also fetch system source.

Now run it:

# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/fusefs start
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service(8) makes that a bit easier:
# service fusefs start
 
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