Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:31:58 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> To: Zbigniew Szalbot <zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org> Cc: Freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: finding the USB drive name, mounting and formatting Message-ID: <4694A38E.7010003@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <ab3753c8c5967c0a6946cf01649f24b8@szalbot.homedns.org> References: <46949CDD.7040209@otenet.gr> <ab3753c8c5967c0a6946cf01649f24b8@szalbot.homedns.org>
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Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hi there again, > > >>> Thank you for your answer. I do have da0s1 but >>> mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbck >>> mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument >>> >>> Also, it is not a flash drive, it is an external USB drive with IDE hd >>> >> in >> >>> it (80 GB). >>> >>> I will skip formatting as I can see your point. Thanks! >>> >>> Zbigniew Szalbot >>> >>> >>> >>> >> If it is a large hard disk, then it is probably worth it to make a UFS >> filesystem on it. >> You can do this very easily by running sysinstall. You will then have a >> /dev/da0s1d to mount >> In fact you may like to try mounting it as /dev/da0s1d right now and see >> what happens... >> > > No such file or directory when I ls /dev/da0sld > > I am sure I have /dev/da0s1 on my system and it seems to be the 80GB USB > drive as confirmed by sysinstall (btw the system thinks it is a SCSI drive > then?). But back to this error: > > mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbck > mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument > > When I try mount -a /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbck, I get: > mount: /dev/da0s1 on /mnt/usbck: incorrect super block > Tried mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1d /mnt/usbck ? > Can you still help? :) > > Thank you! > > Zbigniew Szalbot > > Yes, external USB disks / flash drives are handled as SCSI by the kernel, and you are right the da0 is your disk. Is ls /dev/da0s* showing anything else except da0s1 as a result? I am in front of my FreeBSD system right now, and I have (a UFS formatted) external 250Gb disk on it, I can see da0s1d on ls /dev/da0s* As an afterthought, and maybe dumb question, are you certain the disk is fat formatted and not someting else (i.e. NTFS)?
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