From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 12 11:40:09 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3D5A16A417 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:40:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from galaxy.systems.pipex.net (galaxy.systems.pipex.net [62.241.162.31]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B86013C47E for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:40:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [192.168.23.2] (62-31-10-181.cable.ubr05.edin.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.10.181]) by galaxy.systems.pipex.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 891D3E000262; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:40:07 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <475FC897.8000502@dial.pipex.com> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:40:07 +0000 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20061205 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patrick.Baldwin@studsvik.com References: <475F1727.8050501@studsvik.com> In-Reply-To: <475F1727.8050501@studsvik.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting Western Digital USB drive? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:40:09 -0000 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