Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 11:33:07 +0100 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bootable ext. USB SSD for backup Message-ID: <20170317113307.2d3b290d@archlinux.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20170317101705.0c6fcd49.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20170316194612.GA1748@c720-r314251> <CAOgwaMuZnZFT8_T0R%2BfSW9ortEcc4dkA_-x%2BOsK=_D-r7e8hvQ@mail.gmail.com> <20170317101705.0c6fcd49.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 10:17:05 +0100, Polytropon wrote: >On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 19:47:52 -0700, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: >> I am sorry to respond with respect to Linux . [snip] >> When NTFS external disk is used , it is not necessary to "mount" it >> [snip]=20 > >That doesn't seem to look correct. FreeBSD needs to mount the >NTFS partition in order to access it. On Linux you need to mount it as well ;). Each OS needs to mount a partition, before it could access it. A lot of desktop environments might auto-mount ntfs partitions by default, especially when using so called "user-friendly" Linux distributions. =46rom a "clean" Linux, without having something like gvfs installed and without an fstab or systemd thingy mounting the ntfs partition at startup: [root@archlinux ~]# parted -l | head -28 | tail -7 Disk /dev/sdb: 500GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Disk Flags:=20 Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 22.0GB 22.0GB primary ntfs boot [root@archlinux ~]# mount | grep "/dev/sdb1 " [root@archlinux ~]# mkdir /tmp/foo [root@archlinux ~]# mount -wL xp /tmp/foo=20 [root@archlinux ~]# mount | grep "/dev/sdb1 " /dev/sdb1 on /tmp/foo type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=3D0,= group_id=3D0,allow_other,blksize=3D4096) As you can see, I need to mount it. If I plug in an USB stick or insert a DVD, I need to manually mount it by command line, too. Sure, there are mechanisms available that could auto-mount an USB stick as well as a DVD, I'm just not using such things. Under the hood "user-friendly" Linux distributions auto-mount. A lot of Linux users simply don't understand the OS they are using. Regards, Ralf
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