NTFS confusion

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balanga

I would like to try and access files on an external hard disk which is NTFS formatted. Being new to FreeBSD I'm having difficulty working out how I can successfully mount the disk. There seems to be conflicting information as to what pkgs I need to install to get NTFS support. Some posts suggest using ntfs-3g others mention fusefs-ntfs. It looks as though I've already installed and when trying to install fusefs-ntfs I get:

Code: 
pkg-static: fusefs-ntfs-2014.2.15_2 conflicts with ntfsprogs-2.0.0_4 (installs files into the same place).  Problematic file: /usr/local/bin/ntfscat
==============================================================================

NTFS-3G has been installed, for information, known issues and how to report
bugs see the FreeBSD README:

How do I uninstall ntfs-3g?
 
Thanks for that, I've now managed to install fusefs-ntfs, although this comment appears after the install:-
Code: 
NTFS-3G has been installed, for information, known issues and how to report
bugs see the FreeBSD README:

/usr/local/share/doc/ntfs-3g/README.FreeBSD

but there is no such file....

The only problem now is to work out how to mount the NTFS partition on da0

Any hints would be appreciated

Code: 
 # gpart show
=>       34  312581741  ada0  GPT  (149G)
         34          6        - free -  (3.0K)
         40        128     1  freebsd-boot  (64K)
        168  304086904     2  freebsd-ufs  (145G)
  304087072    8388608     3  freebsd-swap  (4.0G)
  312475680     106095        - free -  (52M)

=>       34  500118125  ada1  GPT  (238G)
         34  500118125        - free -  (238G)

=>       34  500118125  diskid/DISK-000000001311036F2FDC  GPT  (238G)
         34  500118125                                    - free -  (238G)

=>        63  1953525101  da0  MBR  (932G)
          63  1953520065    1  ntfs  (932G)
  1953520128        5036       - free -  (2.5M)

=>        63  1953525101  diskid/DISK-2GHH1TBP  MBR  (932G)
          63  1953520065                     1  ntfs  (932G)
  1953520128        5036                        - free -  (2.5M)
 
README - look in sysutils/fusefs-ntfs if the option DOCS is ON.
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I make a directory /media/extern.


and put in my /etc/fstab:
Code: 
/dev/da0s1      /media/extern   ntfs    rw,noauto,mountprog=/usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g,late 0 0

if you want mount as normal user:
Code: 
chown user:wheel /media/extern
add groups operator and wheel to your normal user

in your /etc/rc.conf:
Code: 
devfs_system_ruleset="localrules"

in your/etc/devfs.rules:
Code: 
[localrules=5]
add path 'da*' mode 0660 group operator

in your /etc/sysctl.conf
Code: 
vfs.usermount=1


have a look if your harddisk is "there" - camcontrol devlist

sudo mount /media/extern
 
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