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Subject: Re: Adding an usb harddisk
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Doug White a écrit :

>On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Jack Raats wrote:
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>>I want to add an usb harddisk.
>>Acoording to fdisk it's formatted as a "NTFS/HPFS/QNX" disk
>>Can I add this disk and still using this file system?
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>NTFS is a Windows filesystem. You can't install FreeBSD to it but you can
>mount and use the volume.  See the mount_ntfs manpage for restrictions on
>our NTFS support.
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>You can mount it using 'mount -t ntfs /dev/daXXXX /YYYY' if you don't want
>to make a UFS filesystem. (replace XXXX with device name and YYYY with
>desired mountpoint.)
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>If you do want to reformat it for UFS, see the article on formatting media
>at www.freebsd.org for instructions.
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>>What kind of dev/fstab do I need to add?
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>Its like an existing one, just change the filesystem type from 'ufs' to
>'ntfs'.
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>>Do I need an extra swap slice?  How to make one?
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>Not unless you want one, but if you do you probably need to destroy the
>NTFS filesystem to make space.
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>>I'm using FreeBSD 4.11.
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>NTFS support there may not be as mature as the one in 5.x.
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just note that it could not be /dev/daXXXX but /dev/adXXXX, e.g, da is 
only for SCSI disks and ad is for IDE ones.