Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 20:56:39 -0700 From: Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't mount USB disk Message-ID: <dc70fde2-7f17-6c82-66bb-a1847b9ee0f4@dreamchaser.org> In-Reply-To: <1511373289.461121272.1642019647543.JavaMail.zimbra@shaw.ca> References: <f9ee146d-941c-01cd-9f96-ff9d881f7843@dreamchaser.org> <1511373289.461121272.1642019647543.JavaMail.zimbra@shaw.ca>
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On 1/12/22 1:34 PM, Dale Scott wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "freebsd" <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> To: "freebsd-questions" >> <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2022 >> 1:09:52 PM Subject: can't mount USB disk > > Hi Gary, here are my notes from the last time I had to do the same > (fwiw it was probably a 16GB device) > > 1. Install fusefs-ntfs Thanks, that did the trick. > 3. Mount drive (read-only here, uncertain if writing to NTFS is as confident as on Linux) I would like to clean up some stuff on that drive but given your note I guess I guess I will do that from a linux system. When plugged into a win7 system the device doesn't show up as a labelled (i.e. bigletter:\) drive, so I can't easily delete things on the win7 system; not sure why that is. windows-backup seems to identify it ok and chooses it for backup. All pretty scary. It's as if once set up as a windows-backup device, it's forever a windows-backup device and can't be used for anything else, despite the fact that it has some "normal" directory hierarchies on it. Anyway, thanks. Gary
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