On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 06:03:13PM -0400, jmc wrote:
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> --- 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