Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:15:48 -0400 From: PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usb key problem Message-ID: <4AD8F094.4060309@videotron.ca> In-Reply-To: <20091016021759.f478642a.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4AD79FE4.6010109@videotron.ca> <20091016012610.99efbf26.freebsd@edvax.de> <4AD7B8F0.20903@videotron.ca> <20091016021759.f478642a.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:06:08 -0400, PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca> wrote: > >> Anyway, I found the solution on the web... couldn't belive it was that >> simple: just ignore the crap spewed out on the screen and just mount iit >> as you would any other disk. >> # mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt >> and that's it >> > > Additionally, when you use mount_msdosfs, you can specify > masks (-m and -M) in order not to have +x attributes on all > the files; the MS-DOS file system on the stick could give > you unwanted results, for example if you have a .jpg file > on the stick and want to open it (with the default app for > .jpg file type), the system will try to execute it. > > > > >> Now to see how I can use it to restore stuff. :-D >> > > If you want to use the stick for FreeBSD operations, why not > give it a real file system (i. e. UFS) instead of some old > FAT? You can simply > > # newfs /dev/da0 > > and then access it in the standard way: > > # mount /dev/da0 /mnt > > See that file owner:group, permissions and flags are now > supported, and files that are not supposed to be executables > don't have +x attribute (as in opposite to FAT / msdosfs). > > You could even add an entry in /etc/fstab like this: > > /dev/da0s1 /media/stick msdosfs rw,noauto,noatime 0 0 > > or, for proper UFS: > > /dev/da0 /media/stick ufs rw,noauto,noatime 0 0 > > Keep in mind that when using device names, it's a matter of > in which sequence device are detected that result in the > corresponding device name (da0, da1 etc.); using labels is > the more elegant way here. > How do you mean, using labels; could you illustrate or clarify? for the above, I mean. I'm trying to set up labels for my normal systems with glabel and struggling...
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