special
node
special
to the global filesystem namespace at the location
indicated by
node
.
Both
special
and
node
are converted to absolute paths before use.
This command is normally executed by
mount(8)
at boot time, but can be used by any user to mount an
NTFS file system on any directory that they own (provided,
of course, that they have appropriate access to the device that
contains the file system).
The supported NTFS versions include both NTFS4, as used by Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, and NTFS5, as used by Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP.
The options are as follows:
).
foo[[:ATTRTYPE]:ATTRNAME]
`ATTRTYPE' is one of identifier listed in $AttrDef file of volume. Default is $DATA. `ATTRNAME' is an attribute name. Default is none.
Examples:
To get volume name (in Unicode):
# cat /mnt/\$Volume:\$VOLUME_NAME
To read directory raw data:
# cat /mnt/foodir:\$INDEX_ROOT:\$I30
Note that it's not currently possible to create or remove files on NTFS filesystems.
Warning: do not mount NTFS filesystems read-write. The write support is not very useful and is not tested well. It's not safe to write to any file on NTFS; you might damage the filesystem. Unless you want to debug NTFS filesystem code, mount the NTFS filesystem read-only.
The
NetBSD
port was done by
Christos Zoulas
<christos@NetBSD.org>
and
Jaromir Dolecek
<jdolecek@NetBSD.org>.
If the attempt to mount NTFS gives you an error like this:
# mount -t ntfs /dev/wd0k /mnt
mount_ntfs: /dev/wd0k on /mnt: Invalid argument
make sure that appropriate partition has correct entry in the disk label, particularly that the partition offset is correct. If the NTFS partition is the first partition on the disk, the offset should be '63' on i386 (see disklabel(8)). mbrlabel(8) could help you to set up the disk label correctly.
If the NTFS partition is marked as `dynamic' under Microsoft Windows XP, it won't be possible to access it under NetBSD anymore.