[OpenIndiana-discuss] Mount NTFS USB under OmniOS

[Jean-Pierre]

ken mays wrote:
> Hello,
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> Yes, I did the original work to migrate to fuse 2.8.5 but we went with Jean-Pierre's approved fixes in SFE. I usually maintain the exFAT, ext2fs/ext3fs, and NTFS support on OI for desktop/server reasons.
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> Milan did migrate the patches into SFE based on the original OpenSolaris fuse project.
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> Go to Tuxera or contact Jean-Pierre for best use cases.
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Up to date ntfs-3g and FUSE for OpenIndiana are available, with
directions for installing on :
http://jp-andre.pagesperso-orange.fr/openindiana-ntfs-3g.html

The same fuse kernel module has also been made available on
SFE, but ntfs-3g is still an old one there.

> ~ Ken Mays
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>   From: Jim Klimov<jimklimov at cos.ru>
> To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2012 8:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mount NTFS USB under OmniOS
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> On 2012-12-30 13:46, Fabio Rodrigues wrote:
>> Hi All,
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>>     Sorry for the "SPAM" to the other lists, but I'm just trying to find a solution for this. I didn't want to compile a ntfs-3g module on my machine, because maybe there's already something ready for it.
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>>     I believe this would be useful not only for NTFS USBs, but for any kind.
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> Well, for OpenIndiana there are FUSE and ntfs-3g packages, and they
> do work on my laptop (a lot slower than native IO, and sometimes it
> requires a directory to be read twice in MC to be visible, but it's
> useable nonetheless). Instructions here:
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> http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Mounting+NTFS+volume+on+an+external+disk+drive
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> I am not sure whether these packages can be directly installed on
> OmniOS, or if you'd have to pull the sources and compile yourself...
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> While googling for an answer, I found a thread from beginning of the
> year, about fixing some problems in FUSE. I am not sure if these are
> now compiled and packaged in the repo...
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> http://b.andre.pagesperso-orange.fr/openindiana-ntfs-3g.html
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> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.openindiana.devel/1101
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> HTH,
> //Jim
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