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Old 6th December 2013
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When and if you elect to return to OpenBSD:
  1. To my knowledge there are no plans to be able to mount ext4 filesystems. You can mount ext2 or ext3, as the latter is ext2 plus journaling.
  2. NTFS filesystems can be mounted read/only. Fuse support has been added to OpenBSD (for 5.5), and there is a working ntfs-3g port for read/write mounting -- it works for me -- which will likely be a binary package for 5.5.
It's too late to diagnose your NTFS filesystem problem, as you're no longer running OpenBSD, but with the limited information provided I assume one of these are the likely root cause of your failure to mount:
  • The drive had an OpenBSD disklabel installed that was misconfigured.
  • The drive did not have an MBR installed. OpenBSD requires either an MBR or a disklabel.
  • Correct MBR/disklabel but the NTFS partition was not in clean state (e.g.: Windows "hibernated" or otherwise not shut down)
  • Typographic error in your mount command.
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