Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:40:07 +0000 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Patrick.Baldwin@studsvik.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting Western Digital USB drive? Message-ID: <475FC897.8000502@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <475F1727.8050501@studsvik.com> References: <475F1727.8050501@studsvik.com>
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Patrick Baldwin wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to mount a 160 GB Western Digital USB 2.0 drive on a > FreeBSD 6.2 system. This seemed like it should be relatively simple, > but: > > webmail# mount /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive > mount: /dev/da0s1 on /mnt/usbdrive: incorrect super block > > OK, it seemed a good chance the USB drive was formatted with NTFS, so > I tried: > > webmail# mount_ntfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive > mount_ntfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument > > Further reading on mount_ntfs suggested that even if I got it to > work, it's not quite what I want: I want read & write access > with compressed files supported. If it doesn't mount as NTFS then FAT32 seems like a distinct possibility. Try file -s /dev/da0s1 and see what it says e.g. $ file -s /dev/ad10s6 /dev/ad10s6: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x58, OEM-ID "MSWIN4.1", sectors/cluster 32, reserved sectors 34, Media descriptor 0xf8, heads 255, hidden sectors 63, sectors 42299082 (volumes > 32 MB) , FAT (32 bit), sectors/FAT 10323, reserved3 0x800000, serial number 0x43937937, label: " SAMSUNG" If it is NTFS (or you reformat it to be) then maybe ntfs-3g is what you want (should be in ports) but I've never used it. If all else fails, can you connect to a a Windows machine and see what it thinks it is? I fail to remember how you figure out file system type in Windows but right-click-properties on the disk might do it. --Alex
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