Patrick Baldwin wrote:
Hi, I'm trying to mount a 160 GB Western Digital USB 2.0 drive on a
FreeBSD 6.2 system. This seemed like it should be relatively simple,
but:
webmail# mount /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive
mount: /dev/da0s1 on /mnt/usbdrive: incorrect super block
OK, it seemed a good chance the USB drive was formatted with NTFS, so
I tried:
webmail# mount_ntfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive
mount_ntfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument
Further reading on mount_ntfs suggested that even if I got it to
work, it's not quite what I want: I want read & write access
with compressed files supported.
If it doesn't mount as NTFS then FAT32 seems like a distinct
possibility. Try file -s /dev/da0s1 and see what it says e.g.
$ file -s /dev/ad10s6
/dev/ad10s6: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x58, OEM-ID "MSWIN4.1",
sectors/cluster 32, reserved sectors 34, Media descriptor 0xf8, heads
255, hidden sectors 63, sectors 42299082 (volumes > 32 MB) , FAT (32
bit), sectors/FAT 10323, reserved3 0x800000, serial number 0x43937937,
label: " SAMSUNG"
If it is NTFS (or you reformat it to be) then maybe ntfs-3g is what you
want (should be in ports) but I've never used it.
If all else fails, can you connect to a a Windows machine and see what
it thinks it is? I fail to remember how you figure out file system type
in Windows but right-click-properties on the disk might do it.
--Alex
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