From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 12 11:36:11 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3FBA1065670 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:36:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonic2000gr@gmail.com) Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com (ey-out-2122.google.com [74.125.78.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46AD48FC13 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:36:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonic2000gr@gmail.com) Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 6so196196eyi.7 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:36:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=dnLKKt2jrNGm/pnHxDN9k2tqq13RRowSAHJf6Vl8cag=; b=jxCUuCttRb7exJbAO8CHkiJeuF89r/eiMRvigHAvJ5dDzM/IynEvZTdwUa38/UpYGE Ba4Cclkntfd5oe0RjCVHgkQSZYaylC39cgdfDN5+KHEQHfl0eodPUER3dikYq5AUK45n 8xjlsw52bFlExLJFLDcjCPG2t2tq8GJYV6u6k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=WnNPwdMuL2HkqG0fVux4mmDMAhx2FfDInOTEdFNkR/OoK/oHSqPHm1sc4KFFIxY7/+ DsVX+DfYkQJx6EkRbndRikNg/4eupb4peTRn7jfsn1yOhgbH75bxOTmP6vgwaDruTXKA UJJA2zDDsTrsjk3jnSR2dtRp2zIl/h02JsAwk= Received: by 10.210.88.7 with SMTP id l7mr1025991ebb.137.1229080326642; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:12:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from theone.dyndns.org (adsluser766.att.sch.gr [81.186.20.8]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 3sm358344eyj.55.2008.12.12.03.11.57 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:12:06 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <494246DE.1070203@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:11:26 +0200 From: Manolis Kiagias User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081011) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: fixer References: <494227E1.6000406@fixer.com> In-Reply-To: <494227E1.6000406@fixer.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: USB Flash Drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:36:11 -0000 fixer wrote: > FreeBSD localhost 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 > 11:05:30 UTC 2007 > root@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 > localhost# > > > I just discovered flash drives. They are very easy to use on Windows. > I don't know if FreeBSD supports these drives. But if FreeBSD does, > I need instructions on "how-to-use". Thanks in advance for anyone who > can help. > > Bruce Have a look at these: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/usb-disks.html Generally speaking, using an ms-dos (fat/fat32) formatted flash drive is as simple as this: - plug - get device name (probably da0) with dmesg |tail - mount as root in /mnt: mount -t msdofs /dev/da0s1 /mnt - Copy / move files etc - umount /mnt - unplug If you read the handbook section, you will also be able to setup your system for user mounting, so you won't have to mount as root. Another useful piece of info is this: http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html With these instructions you can configure automounting in GUIs like Gnome (and XFCE and possibly others, as long as HAL is used) Bear in mind that no matter how you mounted the device, you will have to unmount it before physically removing it, otherwise you are in for a nasty surprise...