Solved How to mount NTFS partition from same HDD?

usernamekiran

usernamekiran

Hello,
I am using FreeBSD 11.1, dual boot with Win 10.
Win 10 is on C drive (ada0p3). I have my media on ada0p4, which is an NTFS drive. sade shows it as "ms-basic-data".
My FreeBSD is installed in a nested partition.
With linux, I used to use sudo mount /dev/sda2<or the drive letter> /usr/target
How can I mount that drive in FreeBSD? Also, I am using XFCE.

Thanks a lot in advance,
Kiran.
 
I believe they all are described in ntfs-3g(8).
You may need ro, for example, maybe uid.
Also, if you want to add the corresponding line to /etc/fstab, you may need late option for a removable device, e.g.
Code: 
/dev/da0s1   /mnt/usb   ntfs   mountprog=/usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g,late,rw       0   0
 
aragats said:
Code: 
ntfs-3g -o <options> /dev/xyz /mnt
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Hi. Upon entering root@alienware:/home/usernamekiran # mount -t ntfs-3g -o permissions /dev/sda4 /mnt/windows
I am getting: mount: /dev/sda4: Operation not supported by device

And upon entering root@alienware:/home/usernamekiran # ntfs-3g -o permissions /dev/sda4 /mnt/windows
I am getting ntfs-3g: Failed to access volume '/dev/sda4': No such file or directory

What am I doing wrong? :-|
 
kiran9 said:
ntfs-3g: Failed to access volume '/dev/sda4': No such file or directory
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That's correct, you'll never see sda devices in FreeBSD, they are named differently compared to Linux, e.g. if it's a USB disk, most likely it will be /dev/da0. So check your /dev for the devices. If you plug in a USB disk, you'll see the device name in dmesg | tail output. You want to mount a partition, e.g. /dev/da0s4, if you know it's 4. It could be /dev/da0p4 if it's a GPT disk.
 
SirDice said:
You will need sysutils/fusefs-ntfs or else you won't be able to read it at all.
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aragats said:
That's correct, you'll never see sda devices in FreeBSD, they are named differently compared to Linux, e.g. if it's a USB disk, most likely it will be /dev/da0. So check your /dev for the devices. If you plug in a USB disk, you'll see the device name in dmesg | tail output. You want to mount a partition, e.g. /dev/da0s4, if you know it's 4. It could be /dev/da0p4 if it's a GPT disk.
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I used: root@alienware:/home/usernamekiran # ntfs-3g -o permissions /dev/ada0p4 /mnt/windows which produced:
Code: 
Using default user mapping
fuse: failed to open fuse device: No such file or directory

Just to sure, I tried to mount a non-ntfs partition.
root@alienware:/home/usernamekiran # ntfs-3g -o permissions /dev/ada0p5 /mnt/windows
Output:
Code: 
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/ada0p5': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/ada0p5' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used?
Or the whole disk instead of apartition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?

All this time (since before even creating this thread), I have refereing to sade partition editor. I have GPT, and the partition that I want to mount is ada0p4
 
Hi kiran9 ,

if you don't want to manually determine filesystems and mount them on the command line, you can use sysutils/dsbmd and sysutils/dsbmc:
Just add
Code: 
dsbmd_enable="YES"
to /etc/rc.conf. Then start the dsbm[B]d[/B] daemon with service dsbmd start or reboot your system. Now you can use the GUI dsbm[B]c[/B] to mount, unmount, etc. your storage devices.
 
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mrclksr said:
Hi kiran9 ,

if you don't want to manually determine filesystems and mount them on the command line, you can use sysutils/dsbmd and sysutils/dsbmc:
Just add
Code: 
dsbmd_enable="YES"
to /etc/rc.conf. Then start the dsbm[B]d[/B] daemon with service dsbmd start or reboot your system. Now you can use the GUI dsbm[B]c[/B] to mount, unmount, etc. your storage devices.
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Hi. I used dsbmc. It is very easy. Thanks. Even though I generally prefer CLI, this time I prefer dsbmc. Thanks everybody. The issue is now resolved.
 
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