usb portable drive (ntfs) issues
illoai at gmail.com
illoai at gmail.com
Sun Feb 27 07:01:03 UTC 2011
On 26 February 2011 22:23, gahn <ipfreak at 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 at hotty:/var/log:$ ls -al /dev/da0s1
> crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 108 Feb 26 22:05 /dev/da0s1
>
> but i can't mount it:
>
> hotty# mount -t mdntfs /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.
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