Module Name: src
Committed By: christos
Date: Wed Sep 9 11:14:09 UTC 2015
Modified Files:
src/sbin/mount_ntfs: mount_ntfs.8
Log Message:
more recent information about unsupported drives.
To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.20 -r1.21 src/sbin/mount_ntfs/mount_ntfs.8
Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
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Modified files:
Index: src/sbin/mount_ntfs/mount_ntfs.8
diff -u src/sbin/mount_ntfs/mount_ntfs.8:1.20 src/sbin/mount_ntfs/mount_ntfs.8:1.21
--- src/sbin/mount_ntfs/mount_ntfs.8:1.20 Tue Mar 18 14:20:39 2014
+++ src/sbin/mount_ntfs/mount_ntfs.8 Wed Sep 9 07:14:09 2015
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: mount_ntfs.8,v 1.20 2014/03/18 18:20:39 riastradh Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: mount_ntfs.8,v 1.21 2015/09/09 11:14:09 christos Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1993,1994 Christopher G. Demetriou
.\" Copyright (c) 1999 Semen Ustimenko
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
.\"
.\" Id: mount_ntfs.8,v 1.3 1999/05/04 11:34:33 jkoshy Exp
.\"
-.Dd October 31, 2001
+.Dd September 9, 2015
.Dt MOUNT_NTFS 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -179,9 +179,16 @@ mount_ntfs: /dev/wd0k on /mnt: Invalid a
.Pp
make sure that appropriate partition has correct entry in the
disk label, particularly that the partition offset is correct.
+.Pp
+Recently many cards (in particular SDXC ones) are formatted using
+exFAT.
+For those cards, disklabel reports NTFS as the partition type.
+There is currently no support for mounting exFAT drives.
+.Pp
If the NTFS partition is the first partition on the disk, the
-offset should be '63' on i386 (see
+offset should be '63' or '2048' on i386 (see
.Xr disklabel 8 ) .
+exFAT partitions typically report an offset of '32768'.
.Xr mbrlabel 8
could help you to set up the disk label correctly.
.Pp
