From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 1 00:29:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9A4816A4CE for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 00:29:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A0AA43D48 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 00:29:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Mike.Jeays@rogers.com) Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.100?) (mjeays2551@24.114.152.139 with plain) by smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Dec 2004 00:29:23 -0000 From: Mike Jeays To: Brian Bobowski In-Reply-To: <41AC82A4.4080302@cogeco.ca> References: <41AC82A4.4080302@cogeco.ca> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1101860962.10293.8.camel@chaucer> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 30 Nov 2004 19:29:22 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Eric Kjeldergaard cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB Flash Drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 00:29:24 -0000 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