Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 02:00:59 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: gahn <ipfreak@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd general questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: usb portable drive (ntfs) issues Message-ID: <AANLkTik7iVZ5KVPDdGR_b0zbMJjzGDcOJpWbUdX7WXC4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <336353.49813.qm@web130210.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <336353.49813.qm@web130210.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On 26 February 2011 22:23, gahn <ipfreak@yahoo.com> wrote: > hi all gurus: > > for usb external drive, i followed the handbook: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/usb-disks.html > > but i have some problems for mounting a portable usb external drive: > > 1) when i plugged in, /dev/da0s1 appears: > > ip@hotty:/var/log:$ ls -al /dev/da0s1 > crw-r----- =A01 root =A0operator =A0 =A00, 108 Feb 26 22:05 /dev/da0s1 > > but i can't mount it: > > hotty# mount -t =A0mdntfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/mlu > mount: /dev/da0s1 : Operation not supported by device > I am wholly unfamiliar with mdntfs, so I'll assume you meant to type ntfs. In any case, you probably have to mount it read-only (unless you install sysutils/fusefs-ntfs) as FreeBSD does not support writing to ntfs by default. Fat32 is still the only viable solution for (nearly) full portability. --=20 --
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