Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 15:10:27 -0500 From: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: jerrymc@msu.edu, Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman@cwis.biz>, Jerry <freebsd.user@seibercom.net> Subject: Re: USB Thumb Drive Message-ID: <AANLkTikJf%2BP_YQwh9fn8pmKkF7O-i0Qga1ZD93aNW8_X@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <A73DFAA9-217A-42A0-BA28-E2403D5AA97C@cwis.biz> References: <AANLkTinxXDY9tEgjT9vvLCkkOPQeCeA8DOx6XsWwhaag@mail.gmail.com> <20101201170000.0305126f@core.draftnet> <20101201131025.5d192c65@scorpio> <A73DFAA9-217A-42A0-BA28-E2403D5AA97C@cwis.biz>
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Thanks all for the feedback, problem solved, details below. Bruce -> "/dev/ad0s1" did the trick ... I was in such a hurry, I forgot to actually look further, I was in a hurry and got impatient :P. "file -s /dev/DEVICE" is a nice little trick, gonna have to tuck this one away for another rainy day when I am stuck. The drive is ntfs, I formatted it that way (I lost nearly 8gb of the 32gb capasity because of fat32). [..] [root@BlackDragon [~]# file -s /dev/da0s1 /dev/da0s1: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x52, OEM-ID "NTFS ", sectors/cluster 8, reserved sectors 0, Media descriptor 0xf8, heads 255, hidden sectors 2048, dos < 4.0 BootSector (0x0) [..] [root@BlackDragon [~]# mount | grep thumb /dev/da0s1 on /mnt/thumb (ntfs, local) [root@BlackDragon [~]# [..] Jerry -> I kinda like the idea of exFAT but I don't put much stock in it (yet). It is by far not a tried-and-true filesystem yet. And since M$ has there hands in it, I doubt we'll see legit F/OSS drivers for it anytime soon. Jerry McAllister -> your fstab entry is my next step, thanks for the reminder though :D Ryan -> As I was saying to Jerry, I don't think we'll see reliable exFAT drivers for the *nix world anytime soon :( It's sad really. M$ might actually get something right in exFAT and it becomes a viable, scalable alternative to NTFS.
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