I run FreeBSD as my alternate operating system. I’ve been trying to copy files from /home/vinetendon to /usb/etc but I keep getting the message “File not found” or something along those lines.
/usb is properly mounted, fstab says it’s okay to read/write
Thing is that /usb is my external USB hd formatted in NTFS
Is the disk’s formatting causing issues? I can handily move and copy files on my UFS partitions but when it comes to the NTFS formatted external drive then BSD gets cranky.
NTFS is probably the problem. Writing to NTFS under unix is iffy. Try this. I’ve never used it but someone posted it in a NTFS/Linux thread a while back.
Works on MacOS (which is Unixoid itself, of course).
FreeBSDoid, in fact.
OS X cannot natively write to NTFS. The included driver is read-only. For reading and writing NTFS on Unix systems, ntfs-3g is the way to go.
That’s what I said, isn’t it?
[NTFS-3g …] works on MacOS
I have had success with Linux Mint. It read and wrote to my NTFS hard drive just fine.