Mounting NTFSSynopsis:The FreeBSD Operating System natively uses the Unix File System (UFS2) and also offers native support for ISO9600 CD, NFS, UDF, ZFS, EXT2, EXT3, EXT4 (in 12.0-Release) and MSDOS. The NTFS (NT Filesystem) is the default filesystem for modern Windows systems. EXFAT filesystem can be natively read and written by both Windows and MacOS, making it an excellent cross-platform filesystem for USB pen drives. To support NTFS and EXFAT, we'll install FuseFS from FreeBSD Ports. I. InstallationFuseFS is included in the FreeBSD Ports and it requires Perl5 as a dependency. # # cd /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-ntfs && make install clean # Use the default compile options: II.Configuration 1. If FuseFS has already been installed to support EXFAT, skip steps 1-3. Otherwise, add the start up to the rc.conf file: # # sysrc fusefs_enable="YES" # sysrc fusefs_safe="YES" # sysrc fusefs_safe_evil="YES" #2. Load fusefs for FreeBSD kernel In /boot/loader.conf add: fusefs_load="YES" or use the command # # echo 'fusefs_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf #3. Manually load kernel module: # # kldload fusefs #4. Create mount points for NTFS # # mkdir /mnt/ntfs # 5. Plug in an already NTFS formatted USB pen drive. Check the console message showing the device name. Example /dev/da0 # # gpart show /dev/da0 # 6. Typically, a flash drive will only have one partition, /dev/da0s1. # # ntfs-3g /dev/da0s1 /mnt/ntfs #7. To unmount and eject flash drive # # umount /mnt/ntfs # camcontrol eject da0 #8. Mount must run as user root, to let a user have full access to a mounted filesystem, grant them rights based on their UID and GID. # # id |