Date: 30 Nov 2004 19:29:22 -0500 From: Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com> To: Brian Bobowski <bbobowski@cogeco.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB Flash Drive Message-ID: <1101860962.10293.8.camel@chaucer> In-Reply-To: <41AC82A4.4080302@cogeco.ca> References: <e6ceb9d4041129211472c6503f@mail.gmail.com> <d9175cad041130005157f54651@mail.gmail.com> <41AC82A4.4080302@cogeco.ca>
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On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 09:24, Brian Bobowski wrote: > Eric Kjeldergaard wrote: > > >>Yes, put an entry in /etc/fstab for it. e.g.: > >> > >>/dev/da0 /flash[1] msdosfs[2] rw > >> > >> > >> > > > >Perhaps my card is just unusal, but freeBSD makes a da0s1 node which > >is the appropriate one to mount. > > > > > > > You're probably right about that, actually; it's been so long since I > had the device hooked up that I simply forgot it, like a hard drive, > would use the slice name schema even though it only appears in the > console as "daX" when it mounts. > > So check the actual contents of /dev for something relating to da0 > before trying this stunt. My mistake, sorry. > > -BB > _______________________________________________ As a follow-up, I have had good success with putting a UFS on flash drives. They then make a great backup device, and you can keep all the file permissions with either tar or cp -rp. The latter wastes some space, but makes it very easy to recover single files. newfs /dev/da0 mount /dev/da0 /flash
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