fusefs & ntfs-3g

[Clay Daniels Jr.]

Alan,  Michael, & Kevin, THANKS very much. This is kind of neat:

root at bsd13:/home/clay # ntfs-3g -o default_permissons /dev/ada0p4 /mnt
root at bsd13:/home/clay # cd /mnt
root at bsd13:/mnt # ls -al

total 2368276
drwxrwxrwx   1 root  wheel           0 Jul 17 16:40 $Recycle.Bin
drwxrwxrwx   1 root  wheel        4096 Aug  6 02:08 .
drwxr-xr-x  19 root  wheel        1024 Sep  8 19:25 ..
drwxrwxrwx   1 root  wheel           0 Aug 13 15:05 Config.Msi
lrwxrwxrwx   2 root  wheel          10 Jul 17 17:07 Documents and Settings
-> /mnt/Users
drwxrwxrwx   1 root  wheel           0 Mar 18 23:52 PerfLogs
drwxrwxrwx   1 root  wheel        4096 Aug  4 16:11 Planetdance
drwxrwxrwx   1 root  wheel        8192 Sep  3 18:55 Program Files
drwxrwxrwx   1 root  wheel        8192 Aug 11 02:20 Program Files (x86)
drwxrwxrwx   1 root  wheel        4096 Aug  6 02:01 ProgramData
drwxrwxrwx   1 root  wheel           0 Jul 17 15:42 Recovery
drwxrwxrwx   1 root  wheel        4096 Sep  8 13:59 System Volume
Information
drwxrwxrwx   1 root  wheel        4096 Jul 17 16:01 Users
drwxrwxrwx   1 root  wheel       16384 Aug 31 20:39 Windows
-rwxrwxrwx   1 root  wheel  1485533184 Sep  8 19:03 hiberfil.sys
-rwxrwxrwx   1 root  wheel   671088640 Sep  8 00:24 pagefile.sys
-rwxrwxrwx   1 root  wheel   268435456 Sep  8 00:24 swapfile.sys
root at bsd13:/mnt #

Clay


On Sun, Sep 8, 2019 at 7:19 PM Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 8, 2019 at 4:46 PM Michael Butler <imb at protected-networks.net>
> wrote:
>
>> On 9/8/19 7:09 PM, Alan Somers wrote:
>> > On Sun, Sep 8, 2019 at 5:00 PM Clay Daniels Jr. <
>> clay.daniels.jr at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> I want to view my Windows C: drive on ata0p4.
>> >> This is what I have:
>> [...]
>> >> root at bsd13:/home/clay # ntfs-3g -o default_permissons /dev/ada0p4 /mnt
>> >> * Windows is hibernated, refused to mount.
>> >> The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0).
>> >> Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount.
>> >> Falling back to read-only mount because the NTFS partition is in an
>> unsafe
>> >> state. Please resume and shutdown Windows fully (no hibernation
>> >> or fast restarting.
>> >>
>> >> I'm having a roadblock here. Maybe someone knows the answer.
>> >>
>> >
>> > I'm assuming that you already ascertained that the Windows file system
>> was
>> > in fact clean?  If so, then this sounds like a problem with fusefs-ntfs,
>> > not with fuse in general.  I've CC'd its maintainer.  He may be able to
>> > help you.
>> > -Alan
>>
>> Windows-10 has a changed default; it does the equivalent of hibernation
>> to facilitate "fast start". ntfs-3g won't touch a partition for writing
>> in that mode :-(
>>
>> If I recall correctly, there is a setting you must change from in
>> Windows under control panel -> system -> power and sleep. From there you
>> should be able to disable the "fast start" option and, after shutting
>> down, ntfs-3g will allow a read/write mount,
>>
>
> I can confirm this. It is documented, but not obvious. You ave two choices:
> 1. Change the system setting, more or less as Michael suggests. I'm away
> from my only W10 system, so I can't check the exact details.
> 2. Force a full shutdown by starting a command window and entering
> "shutdown /s  /f /t 0". This is a one-time full shutdown.
> --
> Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
> E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com
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