From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 7 06:08:44 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 D2CD116A41C for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 06:08:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com) Received: from mail.iinet.net.au (mail-05.iinet.net.au [203.59.3.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0274543D4C for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 06:08:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com) Received: (qmail 12115 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2005 06:08:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO warren.shinji.nq.nu) (203.217.13.157) by mail.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 7 Jul 2005 06:08:30 -0000 From: Warren To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 06:08:43 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507070608.43905.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> Subject: mounting an external USB HDD 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: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 06:08:44 -0000 im running FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE and am trying to do the above. umass0: Genesyslogic USB Mass Storage Device, rev 2.00/0.33, addr 2 So i presume it's ums0 and it's a NTFS filesystem ... mount_ntfs: /dev/ums0: Block device required What little i have found on the web plus man pages im afraid im missing something as it has been a lil while since doing this sort of thing. I have data on the drive i wish to take off as well as data i wish to xfer on to the drive. Any help with this is appreciated. -- Yours Sincerely Shinjii http://www.shinji.nq.nu