Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:17:11 +0200 From: Zbigniew Szalbot <zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org> To: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> Cc: Freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: finding the USB drive name, mounting and formatting Message-ID: <ab3753c8c5967c0a6946cf01649f24b8@szalbot.homedns.org> In-Reply-To: <46949CDD.7040209@otenet.gr> References: <46949CDD.7040209@otenet.gr>
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Hi there again, >> Thank you for your answer. I do have da0s1 but >> mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbck >> mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument >> >> Also, it is not a flash drive, it is an external USB drive with IDE hd > in >> it (80 GB). >> >> I will skip formatting as I can see your point. Thanks! >> >> Zbigniew Szalbot >> >> >> > If it is a large hard disk, then it is probably worth it to make a UFS > filesystem on it. > You can do this very easily by running sysinstall. You will then have a > /dev/da0s1d to mount > In fact you may like to try mounting it as /dev/da0s1d right now and see > what happens... No such file or directory when I ls /dev/da0sld I am sure I have /dev/da0s1 on my system and it seems to be the 80GB USB drive as confirmed by sysinstall (btw the system thinks it is a SCSI drive then?). But back to this error: mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbck mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument When I try mount -a /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbck, I get: mount: /dev/da0s1 on /mnt/usbck: incorrect super block Can you still help? :) Thank you! Zbigniew Szalbot
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