Sunday, May 18, 2008

freebsd7 ntfs-3g Unable to mount

when using ntfs-3g in fstab

/dev/ntfs/MUSIC /media/music ntfs-3g locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0

get the err message:

Inappropriate file type or format

when using mount -t ntfs-3g

[root@bsd ~]# mount -t ntfs-3g -o locale=en_US.UTF-8 /dev/ntfs/MUSIC /media/music/

mount: /dev/ntfs/MUSIC : Operation not supported by device

it only works like this: ntfs-3g -o locale=en_US.UTF-8 /dev/ntfs/MUSIC /media/music/


the solution is found in the freebsd's list

Unable to mount partition with ntfs-3g
>>
>> # mv /sbin/mount_ntfs /sbin/mount_ntfs.bak
>> # ln -s /usr/sbin/mount_ntfs-3g /sbin/mount_ntfs
>>
>> This is one of my /etc/fstab entries
>> /dev/ntfs/2vault /mnt/vault ntfs rw,late,gid=5,umask=113,dmask=002 0 0
>>

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