From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 27 07:01:03 2011 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 22EB71065670 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 07:01:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A92158FC08 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 07:01:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm19 with SMTP id 19so3255718fxm.13 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:01:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=uUYXvGINbKZ/yy5QixFcBFu8cDO5JqAesIEwX2BTsUg=; b=iN30yPdsn0fdZLQntc5d7OoY+QWnlMJ/kiP3wY6gPpUEhbWPTEiRdmBwcqENgrrvp1 KCTDw1QW0NK5GukE5GlANuqxQMcBfBI0QJfExjenqlVKyHKRC5YuayE/qU39H8XQCRLe ZTZY4XMJtfl58jRqViyWi7Gd5h4H+vG1AKwWc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=wxXhYyCKAiokJDjfJqPTQYZD7RE0jbt+KmYHsJBFxBuluAB+pHkGh63HY2OyqVuPYG QbpISJ2VJg+NBdy7UD4Q+1QFFXvGXF8Zmw3WFHiN/Rl4ZNN7rFMSCVI2Qe5qQf5Xe9kc HaUAIaBXPzZ/SP0KELPRRRMhkQWJP4ysZlO8o= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.101.131 with SMTP id c3mr4862500fao.50.1298790059963; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:00:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.103.4 with HTTP; Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:00:59 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <336353.49813.qm@web130210.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <336353.49813.qm@web130210.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 02:00:59 -0500 Message-ID: From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: gahn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd general questions Subject: Re: usb portable drive (ntfs) issues 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: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 07:01:03 -0000 On 26 February 2011 22:23, gahn wrote: > hi all gurus: > > for usb external drive, i followed the handbook: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/usb-disks.html > > but i have some problems for mounting a portable usb external drive: > > 1) when i plugged in, /dev/da0s1 appears: > > ip@hotty:/var/log:$ ls -al /dev/da0s1 > crw-r----- =A01 root =A0operator =A0 =A00, 108 Feb 26 22:05 /dev/da0s1 > > but i can't mount it: > > hotty# mount -t =A0mdntfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/mlu > mount: /dev/da0s1 : Operation not supported by device > I am wholly unfamiliar with mdntfs, so I'll assume you meant to type ntfs. In any case, you probably have to mount it read-only (unless you install sysutils/fusefs-ntfs) as FreeBSD does not support writing to ntfs by default. Fat32 is still the only viable solution for (nearly) full portability. --=20 --