[OpenIndiana-discuss] mount ntfs usb drive

[Nikola M.]

On 05/27/14 12:40 PM, Евгений Парфенов wrote:
> how to mount ntfs usb drive?
> articles that i found was old and they expecting ntfs-3g in repo but i 
> don't see ntfs-3g...only ntfsprogs which i installed but when i mount 
> disk it says block device.
ntfs-3g is in the SFE publisher (pkg.openindiana.org/sfe), and it works 
for me.

Only when searching 'ntfs' with pkg, it does not shows up when you do 
'pkg search -rp ntfs',
but if you do 'pkg search -r ntfs-3g' it shows up.
And same goes for web page search and listing all available packages, 
where it shows.

Anyone knows why IPS/pkg does not shows packages when searching by a 
part of a package name?..
  $ pfexec pkg search -rp ntfs-3g
  PACKAGE PUBLISHER
  pkg:/system/file-system/ntfs-3g/src at 2011.1.15-0.151.1.5     sfe
  pkg:/system/file-system/ntfs-3g/src at 2012.1.15.0.8-0.151.1.7 sfe
  pkg:/system/file-system/ntfs-3g at 2012.1.15.0.8-0.151.1.7     sfe
So you can do:
pfexec pkg install ntfs-3g
(use 'pfexec format' command to find out where is device you are mounting)

> then i tried follow this article 
> http://jp-andre.pagesperso-orange.fr/openindiana-ntfs-3g.html
> now i can mount ntfs but when i backup my svn repositories it causes 
> reboot. 
Oh, I have found that too. (I also used to buid it from source long ago, 
before it was put in SFE)
Maybe we could test it and build new ntfs-3g and put it in SFE?..
But it obviously need to be tested how it work first. I can test it on 
OI Hipster and OI /dev.

nikolam