From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 1 20:04:34 2005 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 9283C16A4CE for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 20:04:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dexter.starfire.mn.org (starfire.skypoint.net [66.93.17.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B61B343D2D for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 20:04:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from john@dexter.starfire.mn.org) Received: (from john@localhost) by dexter.starfire.mn.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id j11K4TM19189; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 14:04:29 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from john) Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 14:04:29 -0600 From: John To: Lowell Gilbert Message-ID: <20050201140429.C18516@starfire.mn.org> References: <44y8e8kqui.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <44y8e8kqui.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>;02:44:21PM -0500 cc: Gert Cuykens cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how do you mount a sony usb memorie stick (camera)? 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: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 20:04:34 -0000 On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 02:44:21PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Gert Cuykens writes: > > > how do you mount a sony usb memorie stick (camera)? > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/usb-disks.html Well, yes, but what the handbook doesn't mention is that these things are almost invariably formatted as msdos (FAT) filesystems. So, what is usually needed is something that looks something like mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /your-mount-point where the "da0" part you can get from your system console/messages. You can also set up /etc/usbd.conf to automatically issue the mount command for you. -- John Lind john@starfire.MN.ORG