Dear ntfs-3g community,

I am running FreeBSD 6.2R, things have been working ok overall using the driver. Today, I just try remounting the external USB drive (/dev/md0) and my machine rebooted all of a sudden, after bringing the system backup without problems. I try remounting the /dev/md0 , but it keeps giving me the error that the volume is dirty, I know that I can probably go to a windows box and clean the filesystem, is there a way to clean this volume or check for consistency in using my box.

[root@lgrullonbsd ~]# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/da0s1 /externalusb1/
$MFTMirr does not match $MFT (record 0).
Failed to mount '/dev/da0s1': Input/output error
NTFS is either inconsistent, or you have hardware faults, or you have a
SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows
then reboot into Windows TWICE. The usage of the /f parameter is very
important! If you have SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first you must activate
it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g.
/dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation
for the details.


Lisandro

Do you use ntfs-3g 1.913 on what hardware? Btw, you're trying to mount /dev/da0s1, not /dev/md0.

My version is
fusefs-ntfs-1.913

I am mounting da0s1 because when I plug the USB external drive that is how it shows in my Machine, This is a 32-bit machine to be specific is a Dell Dimension 4500. The problem I am experiencing is cleaning the filesystem, that is the only reason why it don't want to mount I guess. I don't want to go to a windows box and clean it, there got to be a way around it. You know what I mean?

The error says you either have a softraid or NTFS is corrupted. Install ntfsprogs and run ntfsfix <device> then you should be able to mount if the volume is not too damaged.

Thank you for the promt response, I went to my windows box and did a check disk, too like 2 minutes and it is clean now, if it happens in the near future I will take this walk through. Thank so much, BTW, this driver rocks.