Mounting hard drive NTFS

[Ebi Debi]

I have to make create code in konf file, which will make automatically mounting partition with NTFS of id "usb-Seagate_FreeAgent_2GAV9H30-0:0-part1"(mounting point/mnt/seagate)
-lack of divice cannot make error on starting the system

I have to solve this problem, because this is my homework and I really don't have any idea how to start.

[Kees Nuyt]

Post by Ebi Debi
I have to make create code in konf file, which will make automatically mounting partition with NTFS of id "usb-Seagate_FreeAgent_2GAV9H30-0:0-part1"(mounting point/mnt/seagate)
-lack of divice cannot make error on starting the system
I have to solve this problem, because this is my homework and I really don't have any idea how to start.

I would start with reading
man -s 1M mount_nfs

The SEE ALSO section of the mount_nfs man page offers a few more man
pages worth to inspect.

[Kees Nuyt]

Post by Kees Nuyt

Post by Ebi Debi
I have to make create code in konf file, which will make automatically mounting partition with NTFS of id "usb-Seagate_FreeAgent_2GAV9H30-0:0-part1"(mounting point/mnt/seagate)
-lack of divice cannot make error on starting the system
I have to solve this problem, because this is my homework and I really don't have any idea how to start.

I would start with reading
man -s 1M mount_nfs

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Sorry I misread your posting. I have no idea about NTFS.

[eXeC001er]

I am not sure, but Solaris/Opensolaris has no support of NTFS.

Post by Ebi Debi
I have to make create code in konf file, which will make automatically
mounting partition with NTFS of id
"usb-Seagate_FreeAgent_2GAV9H30-0:0-part1"(mounting point/mnt/seagate)
-lack of divice cannot make error on starting the system
I have to solve this problem, because this is my homework and I really
don't have any idea how to start.
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[Günther]

I also have never heard of any working NTFS mount-option.

Your disk seems to be usb
attach it to a pc or mac and copy the files via network

if it is sata, attach it directly or buy a sata-> usb kit

gea

[Jan Hnatek]

In order to use NTFS on Solaris, you need to:
1/ build and install fuse
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+fuse/Installation
2/ build and install ntfs-3g
http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/

Then you use the 'ntfs-3g' command instead of 'mount' to
mount the device. I don't know what steps need to be taken
to set this up for auto-mount though.

Regards,
hnhn

Post by Ebi Debi
I have to make create code in konf file, which will make automatically mounting partition with NTFS of id "usb-Seagate_FreeAgent_2GAV9H30-0:0-part1"(mounting point/mnt/seagate)
-lack of divice cannot make error on starting the system
I have to solve this problem, because this is my homework and I really don't have any idea how to start.

[Orvar Korvar]

I have tried ntfs-3g driver and on my OpenSolaris PC I get like 3MB/sec read speed. So, you can not get any good NTFS speed with OpenSolaris.

The only way to get good speed is to connect a windows laptop and copy via network.

[Mike DeMarco]

Depends what build you are on. B134 has all the ntfs built in.

Look in /usr/sbin:

mkntfs*
ntfscat*
ntfsclone*
ntfscluster*
ntfscmp*
ntfscp*
ntfsfix*
ntfsinfo*
ntfslabel*
ntfsls*
ntfsmount*
ntfsresize*
ntfsundelete*


This will allow you to create a ntfs filesystem and mount it.

[john kroll]

I think these commands have to do with gparted app. The mount seems to be for that app within the partition so the data is viewed as used or unused no interaction with individual files.

[Orvar Korvar]

To my knowledge, the only way to get good NTFS speed is via network. Impossible to get NTFS speed directly on a Solaris computer.

[Albert Lee]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Orvar Korvar

Post by Orvar Korvar
To my knowledge, the only way to get good NTFS speed is via network. Impossible to get NTFS speed directly on a Solaris computer.

NTFS-3G works reasonably well, about as well as any FUSE-based
filesystem can work anyway. It's in SFE.

-Albert

[Orvar Korvar]

What read/write speeds to you get? Approximately? I only get 3MB/sec. That is unusable.

[Peter Tribble]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Orvar Korvar

Post by Orvar Korvar
What read/write speeds to you get? Approximately? I only get 3MB/sec. That is unusable.

My recent experience here is that with the old mount_ntfs, I could read at
well over 12MB/s (it wasn't busy, but I was going over a 100M network), in
older times at work I could get 30MB/s. The disadvantage there, of course,
is that you only have read, but not write. (And it went to a few k/s when it got
into Temporary Internet Files and tried to read millions of small files, none
of which I wanted.)

I also tried ntfs-3g. I get much slower speeds - 3MB/s at best sounds about
right. And I hung the machine I was using several times, so pretty much gave
up on that idea.

[Mike DeMarco]

Ran the mkntfs on a 1Tbyte usb drive mounted it using mountntfs and was able to read and write to it without a problem.

[Guy Woolley]

All these files except "ntfsmount" are in /usr/sbin in OpenIndiana 147 and 148 - an odd exception !

[Orvar Korvar]

What read and write speeds do you get? 3MB/sec?

[Stefan Voicu]

I found this link: http://blogs.sun.com/mandalika/entry/mounting_windows_ntfs_on_open
Works for me. I copy from NTFS to ZFS at around 16-18MB/s