Mounting NTFS partition

[martin]

Hi, I don't know if this is the right forum for my questions, but anyway... here it goes:

I'm trying to mount my two ntfs partitions (WinXP) in my fresh and new PCBSD.
First I tried to find out the dev names by typing "mount"
and this is the result

/dev/ad0s3a on / (ufs, local, soft-updates)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
/dev/md0 on /tmp (ufs, local)
linprocfs on /usr/compat/linux/proc (linprocfs, local)

I might be wrong, but I don't see them there.
In linux I used to include some stuff on the kernel to mount that kind of partition, but I'm not sure about what should I do in PCBSD.

I would like to know how to mount the ntfs partitions in the console, and once I make it work, include the lines in the boot configuracion so they are mounted in boot time.

Thanks!

[TerryP]

I'm assuming PC-BSD is installed on your first hard drives 3rd primary partition (ad0s3a).

You should be able to mount NTFS file systems with the mount_ntfs command.

mount_ntfs /dev/ad0sN /mnt/ad0sN

where 'N' is the partition or 'slice' you want to mount, default mount points should be setup in /mnt.

To mount them on boot up edit your /etc/fstab file. The entries are a little different form Linux iirc.

# Device                Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump    Pass#
/dev/ad0s3a             /               ufs     rw              1       1

find the entry that corrisponds to your NTFS partitions, change the type and change 'rw,noauto' to 'ro' so it will mount them read only at boot.

# Some thing like this
/dev/ad0s1             /mnt/ad0s1               ntfs     ro              0       0

[martin]

Thank you very much. I was doing that but just wrong ops:

[jdarnold]

Even better, don't mess with mount. Click on the Home icon in the task bar, then open up the Storage Media item. You'll see your local partitions (slices) there. Click on one and it will automount for you. Works like magic.

[martin]

That's great. Very handy, but I've already edited the fstab and works perfect.
Thanks

[gunavara]

yeah the storage media method works just sweet thanks

[pangeran]

Hello... How about write to NTFS system ?
I have problem about write file from PCBSD to Windows NTFS system (my other harddisk or to other pc, access from samba network share), is there any configuration should i change ?

Thanks!

[Charles]

You'll have to installa specific driver that allows to write to NTFS, but 1.4 will allow to read and write to NTFS, as it is now stable

[TerryP]

Does it have any file size limits not inherit in NTFS ?

For example ext2 has a max file size of 2TB but FreeBSD was only able to copy 2GB of file to the file system.



Because then this means I could use NTFS to store my dumps without filling up my game drive ;-)

[g0lem]

btw, if you say it's stable, has anyone tried it yet? my concern would be accessing 'live' large files (generally movies, but others behave the same): when i mounted (the previous version) with ntfs-3g, when i tried to watch a movie it was like i was using pio transfer mode... :twisted:
that's why i'm asking: has anyone tried it yet to see the results for himself/herself? :?: