2008/4/25 Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 3:47 AM, Lord Sporkton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My appologies, i am indeed using GENERIC, > > I did think that perhaps it did not support ntfs, but then i also > > thought it would be rather absent minded to have included mount_ntfs > > if support was not included, thus since i had mount_ntfs, i assumed i > > had support for it. > > > > Rather than calling people "absent minded" don't you think you should > be thankful that they put mount_ntfs in its place so that you can > straight away mount NTFS filesystems once you complie the kernel with > the option enabled which is not very difficult if you have the > sources. If they hadn't put it there, after you compiled the kernel > you will have to go looking for it. > > Don't call other people "absent minded" because you assumed the wrong things. > What happened here is that you failed to read the Documentation and > just assumed things. > This happens to many of us once in a while but going to the extreme of > calling people "absent minded" and names like that when the mistake is > actually on your part will be looked upon as a direct insult in this > list. :-) > > --Siju >
Personally i feel it is wrong to include a controlling mechanism for a feature that is not included. I feel if i have to go so far as to rebuild my kernel, then i can certainly take a few more steps to add mount_ntfs. 2008/4/26 Ivo van der Sangen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 06:03:13PM -0400, jmc wrote: > > --- Lord Sporkton [Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 02:32:37PM -0700]: ---7 > > > I have an NTFS drive attached via USB that was previously attached to > > > an XP home system > > > > [ ... ] > > > > > # mount -t ntfs -r /dev/sd0i /mnt/usb2 > > > mount_ntfs: /dev/sd0i on /mnt/usb2: Operation not supported > > > > you don't say if7you're using a GENERIC kernel or not, but from: > > > > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#foreignfs > > > > > Once you have determined which partition it is you want to use, you can > > > move to the final step: mounting the filesystem contained in it. Most > > > filesystems are supported in the GENERIC kernel: just have a look at the > > > kernel configuration file, located in the /usr/src/sys/arch/<arch>/conf > > > directory. However, some are not, e.g. the NTFS support is experimental > > > and therefore not included in GENERIC. If you want to use one of the > > > filesystems not supported in GENERIC, you will need to build a custom > > > kernel. > > > > Would it be a good idea to note the lack of support for NTFS > filesystems in a GENERIC kerel in mount_ntfs(8)? If it is appreciated > I will send a diff. > > Regards, > > Ivo van der Sangen > > I would most certainly appreciate that, because THAT was the documention i read when i was trying to make this happen. -- -Lawrence
