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How to mount a USB 2.0 Hard Drive to FreeBSD
Hardware Posted by jeff chen on Monday November 29, @05:29PM
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Hello, I'm a newbie at FreeBSD. My previous guy setup a file server for us using FreeBSD, but he's unavailable to help out. I've run out of room on my /dev/ar0s1d drive mounted on /export/fserve. I'm trying to plug in a USB 2.0 External hard drive so that i can backup the stuff to the external drive. What are the steps to mount the drive and then to copy the files over to clear up some space. Any help is appreciated. Jeff


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    Re: How to mount a USB 2.0 Hard Drive to FreeBSD
    by Understudy on Monday November 29, @06:00PM
    Okay a couple of things here. The basic command is:
    mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /mnt

    However that assumes you have a FAT32 partition on the usb drive. Which is fine. If you have a NTFS partition you need to have NTFS support in the kernel, which isn't very good right now. If it is a ufs partition (FreeBSD 4.x), the basic command is :
    mount -t ufs /dev/da0s1 /mnt

    If it is a ufs2 partition (FreeBSD 5.x), the basic command is :
    mount -t ufs2 /dev/da0s1 /mnt

    In order to copy the files you simply do:
    $ cp /diretoryname/filename /mnt/directoryname/filename
    as a very rough example.
    But if you want to free up space I recommend using move:
    $ mv /diretoryname/filename /mnt/directoryname/filename
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    • Re: How to mount a USB 2.0 Hard Drive to FreeBSD
      by Understudy on Thursday February 10, @10:56PM
      The ufs2 mount mounts the same as ufs do not place the 2 after ufs.
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    • Re: How to mount a USB 2.0 Hard Drive to FreeBSD
      by veerreddy on Friday February 18, @09:43PM
      how i get an error when mounting external hdd to my system. i get this error mount :/dev/da0s4: operation not permited
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    Re: How to mount a USB 2.0 Hard Drive to FreeBSD
    by Understudy on Thursday February 10, @11:01PM
    There is a really cool article on how to format and create a file system and mount point for a new usb drive here.
    http://freebsd.backfire.ca/pages/newdisk
    I should update this for a usb specfic item but the idea is there.
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    • Re: How to mount a USB 2.0 Hard Drive to FreeBSD
      by awais on Friday October 24, @08:00AM
      o thanks dear. you have solved my big probelm.
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