Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 00:03:33 +0100 From: Ivan Roth <ivan.roth@free.fr> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding an usb harddisk Message-ID: <420BE845.2060206@free.fr> In-Reply-To: <20050210142639.G26712@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <000b01c50fb1$28304fd0$9d00000a@jara2> <20050210142639.G26712@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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Doug White a écrit : >On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Jack Raats wrote: > > > >>I want to add an usb harddisk. >>Acoording to fdisk it's formatted as a "NTFS/HPFS/QNX" disk >>Can I add this disk and still using this file system? >> >> > >NTFS is a Windows filesystem. You can't install FreeBSD to it but you can >mount and use the volume. See the mount_ntfs manpage for restrictions on >our NTFS support. > >You can mount it using 'mount -t ntfs /dev/daXXXX /YYYY' if you don't want >to make a UFS filesystem. (replace XXXX with device name and YYYY with >desired mountpoint.) > >If you do want to reformat it for UFS, see the article on formatting media >at www.freebsd.org for instructions. > > > >>What kind of dev/fstab do I need to add? >> >> > >Its like an existing one, just change the filesystem type from 'ufs' to >'ntfs'. > > > >>Do I need an extra swap slice? How to make one? >> >> > >Not unless you want one, but if you do you probably need to destroy the >NTFS filesystem to make space. > > > >>I'm using FreeBSD 4.11. >> >> > >NTFS support there may not be as mature as the one in 5.x. > > > just note that it could not be /dev/daXXXX but /dev/adXXXX, e.g, da is only for SCSI disks and ad is for IDE ones.
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