Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:11:26 +0200 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> To: fixer <orders@fixer.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: USB Flash Drives Message-ID: <494246DE.1070203@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <494227E1.6000406@fixer.com> References: <494227E1.6000406@fixer.com>
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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...
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