Remove some words that are not typically found in OpenBSD mount man pages. Write support is simply not going to happen, so we can summarize that situation much more succinctly. (and enforce readonly mounts in the program.)
Index: mount_ntfs.8 =================================================================== RCS file: /home/tedu/cvs/src/sbin/mount_ntfs/mount_ntfs.8,v retrieving revision 1.11 diff -u -r1.11 mount_ntfs.8 --- mount_ntfs.8 13 Oct 2010 15:40:31 -0000 1.11 +++ mount_ntfs.8 27 Jun 2011 04:05:55 -0000 @@ -55,12 +55,14 @@ to the global filesystem namespace at the location indicated by .Pa node . -This command is normally executed by +This command is invoked by .Xr mount 8 -at boot time, but can be used by any user to mount an -NTFS file system on any directory that they own (provided, -of course, that they have appropriate access to the device that -contains the file system). +when using the syntax +.Bd -ragged -offset 4h +.Nm mount Op options +-t ntfs +.Ar special Ar node +.Ed .Pp The .Ar special @@ -134,37 +136,12 @@ .Bd -literal -offset indent # cat /mnt/foodir:\e$INDEX_ROOT:\e$I30 .Ed -.Ss Limited support for writing -There is limited writing ability for files. -Limitations: -.Pp -.Bl -bullet -compact -.It -file must be non-resident -.It -file must -.Em not -contain any holes (uninitialized areas) -.It -file can't be compressed -.El -.Pp -Note that it's not currently possible to create or remove files -on NTFS filesystems. -.Pp -.Sy Warning : -do not mount NTFS filesystems read-write. -The write support is not very useful and is not tested well. -It's not safe to write to any file on NTFS; you might damage the filesystem. -Unless you want to debug NTFS filesystem code, mount the NTFS filesystem -read-only. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr mount 2 , .Xr unmount 2 , .Xr disklabel 5 , .Xr fstab 5 , .Xr disklabel 8 , -.\" .Xr mbrlabel 8 , .Xr mount 8 .Sh HISTORY Support for NTFS first appeared in @@ -185,9 +162,7 @@ port was done by .An Julien Bordet Aq [email protected] . .Sh BUGS -The write support should be enhanced to actually be able to change -file size, and to create and remove files and directories. -It's not very useful right now. +Only read support is enabled. .Pp If the attempt to mount NTFS gives you an error like this: .Bd -literal -offset indent @@ -200,8 +175,6 @@ If the NTFS partition is the first partition on the disk, the offset should be '63' (see .Xr disklabel 8 ) . -.\" .Xr mbrlabel 8 -.\" could help you to set up the disk label correctly. .Pp If the NTFS partition is marked as .Ql dynamic Index: mount_ntfs.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/tedu/cvs/src/sbin/mount_ntfs/mount_ntfs.c,v retrieving revision 1.12 diff -u -r1.12 mount_ntfs.c --- mount_ntfs.c 14 Apr 2007 17:07:28 -0000 1.12 +++ mount_ntfs.c 27 Jun 2011 04:05:37 -0000 @@ -109,6 +109,8 @@ } } + mntflags |= MNT_RDONLY; + if (optind + 2 != argc) usage();
