ls sees disk but mount_ntfs doesn't

Chris Whitehouse cwhiteh at onetel.com
Thu Jan 31 06:59:08 PST 2008


Hi,

I'm trying to get some data off a laptop. The disk is buried inside 
somewhere so to avoid dismantling the laptop I am trying to mount it 
using a FreeBSD livefs cd (7.0RC1).

Note all the commands and output below are typed up by hand but I think 
they are accurate.

Fixit# ls -l /dev/ad0s2
crw-r-----  1 root  operator    0,  94 Jan 31 13:39 /dev/ad0s2
Fixit# mount_ntfs -o ro /dev/ad0s2 /mnt
mount_ntfs: /dev/ad0s2: No such file or director


So I thought I would try using ntfs-3g which I would prefer anyway as it 
  is probably safer.

Fixit# pkg_add -r fusefs-ntfs
Fetching ftp://[pathto]fusefs-ntfs.tbs...pkg_add: warning error writing 
to tar: Broken pipe Done.
pkg_add: unable to open table of contents of file '+CONTENTS' - not a 
package?
Fixit#

Lastly dmesg shows:
GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad0s2 is ntfs/HDD.

So how can I mount the hard disk?

Or can anyone suggest an alternative way to get the data other than 
dismantling the laptop? I've tried ping which is a linux based disk 
cloning livecd but it can't see network or a usb hard drive.

As a secondary question, could ntfs-3g be included in the livefs CD? It 
seems like quite a useful utility to have.

Thanks

Chris


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