NTFS external harddrive mounting trouble

[imp]

Yes, I know there are a thousand and one threads already about mounting ntfs drives. And yet my specific situation seems to be missing.

I have sysutils/ntfsprogs and sysutils/fusefs-ntfs. I can mount it but i cannot write to it.

mount -t ntfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usb

works just fine but I cannot write to the drive.

Did some digging and found that I needed fusefs-ntfs installed and to use ntfs-3g /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usb or mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usb

These return an error

fuse: failed to open fuse device: No such file or directory.

Thanks in advance for pointing out what i missed.

 

[sk8harddiefast]

Try

kldload fuse

or add

fusefs_enable="YES"

on /etc/rc.conf
Reboot and try

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usb

again.
If you want to mount the device on boot:
Your /etc/fstab should be like this:

/dev/da0s1	   /mnt/usb/	    	ntfs	   [B]rw [/B]    0 0

See also http://www.linuxconfig.org/How_to_mount_partition_with_ntfs_file_system_and_read_write_access
http://forums.pcbsd.org/showthread.php?t=8548

 

[imp]

Is there any way to accomplish this without using /etc/fstab? I would like to manually mount it and be able to move it around between comps

Already tried mount -t ntfs-3g

Adding fuse.ko worked. Thank you. Sorry I missed that. It wasn't mentioned in the install of fusefs. Maybe they should add that on to the end when they say that the install is finished.

 

[sk8harddiefast]

Have you load fuse?
add

fusefs_enable="YES"

on /etc/rc.conf
Reboot and try again ?

 

[AndreiS]

Have you load fuse?
add

fusefs_enable="YES"

on /etc/rc.conf
Reboot and try again ?

I'm using FreeBSD 10.1 and the above method doesn't work. Any other suggestions?

 

[wblock@]

This is a four-year-old thread. FreeBSD 10.1 has a native FUSE implementation. sysutils/fusefs-ntfs still must be used, and ntfs-3g(8) is the mount command for it.

 

[JirkaRCK]

Hi,
please, could you advise me, what and where to autoload in 10.2 to make ntfs-3g working?
This wokrs well:

kldload fuse

but editing /etc/rc.conf by

fuse_enable="yes"

has no effect and I need to load module manually.

 

[tobik@]

Run sysrc kld_list+=fuse

 

[JirkaRCK]

Thanks, it worked fine to me.

But I've found another way to load this module, which is maybe better, because the fstab is executed before rc.conf and corrupts booting:

Use fuse_enable="yes" in /boot/loader.conf, module /boot/kernel/fuse.ko has to be coppied or linked into /boot/modules/ to make it work.
This loads module before fstab execution, so it is able to content ntfs partitions.

This is example of my fstab record:

/dev/ada0s2 /mnt/WinC ntfs rw,mountprog=/usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g 0 0

 

[tobik@]

fstab is executed before rc.conf and corrupts booting:

If you add late to your fstab the problem goes away:

/dev/ada0s2 /mnt/WinC ntfs rw,late,mountprog=/usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g 0 0

Use fuse_enable="yes" in /boot/loader.conf, module /boot/kernel/fuse.ko has to be coppied or linked into /boot/modules/ to make it work.

No, don't copy the module. Just add fuse_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf if you want to do it that way.

 

[Areeb Qaisar]

I am also having a similar problem.
I am on FreeBSD 11.0
I have used the 'late' in fstab and added the fusefs_enable = YES in rc.conf
but I am still getting the error:
fuse: failed to open fuse device: No such file or directory.

How to load
kldload fuse / fuse.ko if I am missing this.