From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 1 20:10:49 2010 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 D9EFC1065695 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2010 20:10:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xaero@xaerolimit.net) Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com (mail-ey0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 744BF8FC18 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2010 20:10:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyb7 with SMTP id 7so4003003eyb.13 for ; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 12:10:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.213.32.80 with SMTP id b16mr10822679ebd.38.1291234247796; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 12:10:47 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.31.209 with HTTP; Wed, 1 Dec 2010 12:10:27 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <20101201170000.0305126f@core.draftnet> <20101201131025.5d192c65@scorpio> From: Chris Brennan Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 15:10:27 -0500 Message-ID: To: FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: jerrymc@msu.edu, Bruce Cran , Ryan Coleman , Jerry Subject: Re: USB Thumb Drive 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: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:10:50 -0000 Thanks all for the feedback, problem solved, details below. Bruce -> "/dev/ad0s1" did the trick ... I was in such a hurry, I forgot to actually look further, I was in a hurry and got impatient :P. "file -s /dev/DEVICE" is a nice little trick, gonna have to tuck this one away for another rainy day when I am stuck. The drive is ntfs, I formatted it that way (I lost nearly 8gb of the 32gb capasity because of fat32). [..] [root@BlackDragon [~]# file -s /dev/da0s1 /dev/da0s1: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x52, OEM-ID "NTFS ", sectors/cluster 8, reserved sectors 0, Media descriptor 0xf8, heads 255, hidden sectors 2048, dos < 4.0 BootSector (0x0) [..] [root@BlackDragon [~]# mount | grep thumb /dev/da0s1 on /mnt/thumb (ntfs, local) [root@BlackDragon [~]# [..] Jerry -> I kinda like the idea of exFAT but I don't put much stock in it (yet). It is by far not a tried-and-true filesystem yet. And since M$ has there hands in it, I doubt we'll see legit F/OSS drivers for it anytime soon. Jerry McAllister -> your fstab entry is my next step, thanks for the reminder though :D Ryan -> As I was saying to Jerry, I don't think we'll see reliable exFAT drivers for the *nix world anytime soon :( It's sad really. M$ might actually get something right in exFAT and it becomes a viable, scalable alternative to NTFS.