Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:44:06 +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: <46949856.1040309@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <d1474d2caf817514b40488453539d3ba@szalbot.homedns.org> References: <d1474d2caf817514b40488453539d3ba@szalbot.homedns.org>
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Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello, > > I have kernel compiled with USB support and I plugged in a USB drive: > messages show this information: > > Jul 11 09:48:22 lists kernel: umass0: Myson Century, Inc. USB Mass Storage > Device, rev 2.00/b0.07, addr 2 > Jul 11 09:48:22 lists kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > Jul 11 09:48:22 lists kernel: da0: <ST380021 A 3.19> Fixed Direct Access > SCSI-0 device > Jul 11 09:48:22 lists kernel: da0: 1.000MB/s transfers > Jul 11 09:48:22 lists kernel: da0: 76319MB (156301488 512 byte sectors: > 255H 63S/T 9729C) > > 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. > > I guess I need something like that: > mount -t msdosfs /dev/??? /mnt/usbck > > Once I have it there, what is the best way to format this drive (I would > like to use it for backup with FBSD file system)? > > Thank you very much in advance! > > Zbigniew Szalbot > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > 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 For the second part of the question, I usually prefer to keep these drives FAT formatted and tar gzip the files I need in there. I suppose if you need to make UFS on it you will have to bsdlabel and newfs it. Have never done it, but have a look at this page: http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick-episode-2 He is installing FreeBSD on a flash drive. Although not directly relevant to what you are doing, he is showing all commands for creating a UFS on the flash drive, and should be enough to get you started.
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