Re: USB key && NTFS

From: Matthias Apitz <guru_at_unixarea.de>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 18:36:12 UTC
El día martes, enero 16, 2024 a las 06:53:41p. m. +0100, Alexander Burke escribió:

> Hi Matthias,
> 
> It's probably actually formatted as exFAT, which according to another recent thread seems to share a partition type with NTFS (facepalm).
> 
> Reformat it as actually-NTFS and the problem should be solved.
> 
> Cheers,
> Alex

Hi Alexander,

Yes, it is exFAT (and not NTFS) and I had to bake in my poudriere oven the package
fusefs-exfat. After installing it, the key mounts fine and I'm testing the
space with f3write:

$ f3write /mnt/f3
F3 write 8.0
Copyright (C) 2010 Digirati Internet LTDA.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.

Free space: 117.18 GB
Creating file 1.h2w ... OK!
Creating file 2.h2w ... OK!
...

Magically the 128 GB (in big marketing letters) changed to ~117 GB :-)

Thanks anyway

	matthias


> Jan 16, 2024 18:06:00 Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>:
> 
> > 
> > I've bought a fresh "128 GB" (marketing GBytes) USB key and it says in
> > my laptop:
> > 
> > root@c720-1400094:~ # uname -a
> > FreeBSD c720-1400094 14.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT amd64 1400094 #2 main-n264568-1d7ffb373c9d-dirty: Wed Sep  6 07:13:22 CEST 2023     guru@jet:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC amd64
> > 
> > root@c720-1400094:~ # tail /var/log/messages
> > Jan 16 17:50:52 c720-1400094 kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus1 target 0 lun 0
> > Jan 16 17:50:52 c720-1400094 kernel: da0: <Generic Flash Disk 8.01> Removable Direct Access SPC-4 SCSI device
> > Jan 16 17:50:52 c720-1400094 kernel: da0: Serial Number A430786F
> > Jan 16 17:50:52 c720-1400094 kernel: da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
> > Jan 16 17:50:52 c720-1400094 kernel: da0: 120000MB (245760000 512 byte sectors)
> > Jan 16 17:50:52 c720-1400094 kernel: da0: quirks=0x2<NO_6_BYTE>
> > 
> > root@c720-1400094:~ # gpart show /dev/da0
> > =>       63  245759937  da0  MBR  (117G)
> >          63         65       - free -  (33K)
> >         128  245759872    1  ntfs  [active]  (117G)
> > 
> > root@c720-1400094:~ # ls -l /dev/da*
> > crw-r-----  1 root operator 0x1aa 16 ene.  17:50 /dev/da0
> > crw-r-----  1 root operator 0x1ab 16 ene.  17:53 /dev/da0s1
> > root@c720-1400094:~ #  mount_ntfs-3g /dev/da0s1 /mnt
> > NTFS signature is missing.
> > Failed to mount '/dev/da0s1': Invalid argument
> > The device '/dev/da0s1' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
> > Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
> > partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
> > 
> > root@c720-1400094:~ # which mount_ntfs-3g
> > /usr/sbin/mount_ntfs-3g
> > root@c720-1400094:~ # ls -l /usr/sbin/mount_ntfs-3g
> > lrwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel 22  9 ene.   2021 /usr/sbin/mount_ntfs-3g -> /usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g
> > root@c720-1400094:~ # pkg which /usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g
> > /usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g was installed by package fusefs-ntfs-2022.10.3
> > 
> > 
> > What I do wrong?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> >     matthias
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I am not at war with Russia.
Я не воюю с Россией.
Ich bin nicht im Krieg mit Russland.