Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:03:25 +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: <46949CDD.7040209@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <0c455a270b66fc687d37e6c41125dd14@szalbot.homedns.org> References: <46949856.1040309@otenet.gr> <0c455a270b66fc687d37e6c41125dd14@szalbot.homedns.org>
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Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello, > > >>> I created /mnt/usbck and would like to mount it there, then format it as >>> >> it >> >>> uses msdos file system (FAT). >>> >>> How do I determine the name of the drive is my first problem. It is not >>> da0, it is? What is the command to check it? I mean I think it is not >>> >> da0 >> >>> because da0 timestamp is a few days old. >>> > > >> If this is a USB flash drive with a FAT partition, it is probably just >> da0s1 (I am using one right now!) . Just do an ls /dev/da0* >> and simply mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbck >> > > 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...
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