From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 21 16:31:55 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02F921065695 for ; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:31:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remegius@comcast.net) Received: from qmta11.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta11.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.27.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E40048FC0C for ; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:31:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.28]) by qmta11.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id x44F1e0050cQ2SLAB4Xulb; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:31:54 +0000 Received: from remegius.comcast.net ([67.180.204.190]) by omta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id x4Xt1e00346zqiB8W4Xtaj; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:31:54 +0000 Message-ID: <4C6FFF79.1030808@comcast.net> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 09:31:53 -0700 From: Rem P Roberti User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100819 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: External HD 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: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:31:55 -0000 I have a 500GB USB HD which I am able mount thus: mount_ntfs /dev/da2s1 /mnt Having done so I can copy from the external drive, but not write to it. What is necessary to implement in order to be able to write to an external hard drive? Rem