Kevin Oberman
2016-Jan-25 00:50 UTC
Auto-mounting USB NTFS formatted devices on FreeBSD 10.2 and HEAD
Since the removal of NTFS support, it is unclear how to get USB drives formatted as NTFS (or ExFAT) to automatically mount. Prior to FreeBSD 10 it was possible to replace /sbin/mount_ntfs with a script that would generate appropriate options and exec /usr/local/sbin/ntfs-3g and let HAL fire up mount_ntfs, but that no longer works as mount_ntfs is no longer used and mount(8) no longer treats '-t ntfs' as special. It would appear that automount(8) would be the right magic, but it's not obvious to me how to configure it to recognize that an NTFS device has been connected to a USB port (as opposed to msdosfs) and to use ntfs-3g to do the actual mount. I assume that the same issue exists for ExFAT. Does anyone have an idea of what magic is required in the auto_master or elsewhere to make this work in conjunction with devd? I'd really like to avid using hald, if possible. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683
Edward Tomasz Napierała
2016-Jan-25 15:11 UTC
Auto-mounting USB NTFS formatted devices on FreeBSD 10.2 and HEAD
On 0124T1650, Kevin Oberman wrote:> Since the removal of NTFS support, it is unclear how to get USB drives > formatted as NTFS (or ExFAT) to automatically mount. Prior to FreeBSD 10 it > was possible to replace /sbin/mount_ntfs with a script that would generate > appropriate options and exec /usr/local/sbin/ntfs-3g and let HAL fire up > mount_ntfs, but that no longer works as mount_ntfs is no longer used and > mount(8) no longer treats '-t ntfs' as special. > > It would appear that automount(8) would be the right magic, but it's not > obvious to me how to configure it to recognize that an NTFS device has been > connected to a USB port (as opposed to msdosfs) and to use ntfs-3g to do > the actual mount. I assume that the same issue exists for ExFAT. > > Does anyone have an idea of what magic is required in the auto_master or > elsewhere to make this work in conjunction with devd? I'd really like to > avid using hald, if possible.Try to apply the following diff in /etc/autofs/: Index: special_media ==================================================================--- special_media (revision 294670) +++ special_media (working copy) @@ -35,7 +35,11 @@ print_one() { _fstype="$(fstyp "/dev/${_key}" 2> /dev/null)" if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then - echo "-fstype=${_fstype},nosuid :/dev/${_key}" + if [ ${_fstype} = "ntfs" ]; then + echo "-fstype=${_fstype},nosuid,mountprog=/usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g :/dev/${_key}" + else + echo "-fstype=${_fstype},nosuid :/dev/${_key}" + fi return fi @@ -59,7 +63,11 @@ print_one() { continue fi - echo "-fstype=${_fstype},nosuid :/dev/${_p}" + if [ ${_fstype} = "ntfs" ]; then + echo "-fstype=${_fstype},nosuid,mountprog=/usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g :/dev/${_p}" + else + echo "-fstype=${_fstype},nosuid :/dev/${_p}" + fi done # No matching device - don't print anything, autofs will handle it.
Julian H. Stacey
2016-Jan-25 16:56 UTC
Auto-mounting USB NTFS formatted devices on FreeBSD 10.2 and HEAD
Kevin Oberman wrote:> Since the removal of NTFS support, it is unclear how to get USB drives > formatted as NTFS (or ExFAT) to automatically mount. Prior to FreeBSD 10 it > was possible to replace /sbin/mount_ntfs with a script that would generate > appropriate options and exec /usr/local/sbin/ntfs-3g and let HAL fire up > mount_ntfs, but that no longer works as mount_ntfs is no longer used and > mount(8) no longer treats '-t ntfs' as special. > > It would appear that automount(8) would be the right magic, but it's not > obvious to me how to configure it to recognize that an NTFS device has been > connected to a USB port (as opposed to msdosfs) and to use ntfs-3g to do > the actual mount. I assume that the same issue exists for ExFAT. > > Does anyone have an idea of what magic is required in the auto_master or > elsewhere to make this work in conjunction with devd? I'd really like to > avid using hald, if possible.I use devd to auto mount USB NTFS, I just it works with 10.2-RELEASE & an NTFS USB connected drive, here's a chunk from my http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/src/jhs/etc/devd/berklix.conf action "sleep 10; \ rm -f /devusb/acer300; \ ln -s /dev/`echo $device-name|sed -e s/umass/da/`s1 \ /devusb/acer300.1; \ ln -s /dev/`echo $device-name|sed -e s/umass/da/`s2 \ /devusb/acer300.2; \ ln -s /dev/`echo $device-name|sed -e s/umass/da/`s3 \ /devusb/acer300.3; \ mkdir -p /media/acer300.2; mkdir -p /media/acer300.3; \ chmod 777 /media/acer300.*; \ chown jhs:staff /media/acer300.*; \ ntfsfix /devusb/acer300.2 ; \ ntfs-3g -o ro /devusb/acer300.2 /media/acer300.2; \ ntfsfix /devusb/acer300.3 ; \ ntfs-3g -o ro /devusb/acer300.3 /media/acer300.3" ; Now I'll read man 8 automount & other people's alternate solutions on the thread :-) Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix Sys. Eng. Consultant Munich http://berklix.eu Mail plain text, No quoted-printable, HTML, base64, MS.doc. Prefix old lines '> ' Reply below old, like play script. Break lines by 80.