Knowledge Base

Starting PC-BSD 1.4, it is possible to mount an NTFS partition with read/write access using NTFS-3G. The procedure can only be manual as of this writing (July 3rd). Here's how you can mount your NTFS partition. You first have to load the Fuse driver. You can load it manually:

%su -
#kldload /usr/local/modules/fuse.ko

Or automatically at system bootup: With root privilege, open /etc/rc.conf and add the following line:

fusefs_enable="YES"

If you don't have a mount point yet for your NTFS partition, create one, ie:

#mkdir -p /mnt/docs

Then with the driver loaded, you just have to mount your NTFS partition. Assuming your partition is /dev/ad0s1, that would be:

#ntfs-3g /dev/ad0s1 /mnt/docs

Then open your file browser, go to your mount point, you have read and write access to your files :)