On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 07:57:56AM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> NTFS support is not enabled in the GENERIC kernel.
Oops, I may be wrong. It is enabled on recent i386 and amd64 kernels.
But since you neglect to give us a dmesg, we cannot tell if it is
actually enable on your machine.
-Otto
>
> On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 10:18:45PM -0700, Anthony J. Bentley wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I attempt to mount a NTFS-formatted external drive, it fails:
> > # mount -t ntfs /dev/sd2i /media/usb/
> > mount_ntfs: /dev/sd2i on /media/usb: Invalid argument
> >
> > There is a note about this under BUGS in mount_ntfs(8):
> >
> > 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 the appropriate partition has the 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' (see disklabel(8)).
> >
> > However, disklabel already says 63 for the argument, so this seems
> > not to apply. Also, the size entry matches fdisk output and the type
> > is (obviously) NTFS.
> >
> > Any ideas of what to debug? Is this a PEBKAC?
> >
> > fdisk:
> > Disk: sd2 geometry: 14593/255/63 [234441648 Sectors]
> > Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55
> > Starting Ending LBA Info:
> > #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ]
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 0: 07 0 1 1 - 14592 254 63 [ 63: 234436482 ] NTFS
> >
> > 1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
> >
> > 2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
> >
> > 3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
> >
> >
> > disklabel:
> > # /dev/rsd2c:
> > type: SCSI
> > disk: SCSI disk
> > label: HM121HC
> > duid: 0000000000000000
> > flags:
> > bytes/sector: 512
> > sectors/track: 63
> > tracks/cylinder: 255
> > sectors/cylinder: 16065
> > cylinders: 14593
> > total sectors: 234441648
> > boundstart: 0
> > boundend: 234441648
> > drivedata: 0
> >
> > 16 partitions:
> > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
> > c: 234441648 0 unused
> > i: 234436482 63 NTFS
