Re: USB Flash Drives
Rather than mounting the disks, I find it easier to use the mtools port (emulators/mtools). The commands look like the old ms-dos commands, and include a copy command. Sorry if unrelated, but is there any way to avoid system crash after ejection of just like he said - use mtools for DOS-format flashdrives :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: USB Flash Drives
On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 01:59 -0700, fixer wrote: FreeBSD localhost 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007 r...@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 localhost# I just discovered flash drives. They are very easy to use on Windows. I don't know if FreeBSD supports these drives. But if FreeBSD does, I need instructions on how-to-use. Thanks in advance for anyone who can help. Check removable disks in the handbook. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: USB Flash Drives
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 09:39:50PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: fixer ord...@fixer.com writes: FreeBSD localhost 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007 r...@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 localhost# I just discovered flash drives. They are very easy to use on Windows. I don't know if FreeBSD supports these drives. But if FreeBSD does, I need instructions on how-to-use. Thanks in advance for anyone who can help. Rather than mounting the disks, I find it easier to use the mtools port (emulators/mtools). The commands look like the old ms-dos commands, and include a copy command. Sorry if unrelated, but is there any way to avoid system crash after ejection of unmounted USB-storage device? I had a plenty of painful crashes today after several power losses on my external usb-hdd (ntfs slice mounted, FreeBSD 7.1-RC1). It would be nice to have a safety-net here, considering these devices are so easilly deatachable by cats and ppl lurking around :) Any advices? -- Best regards, Jeff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: USB Flash Drives
fixer wrote: FreeBSD localhost 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007 r...@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 localhost# I just discovered flash drives. They are very easy to use on Windows. I don't know if FreeBSD supports these drives. But if FreeBSD does, I need instructions on how-to-use. Thanks in advance for anyone who can help. Bruce Have a look at these: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/usb-disks.html Generally speaking, using an ms-dos (fat/fat32) formatted flash drive is as simple as this: - plug - get device name (probably da0) with dmesg |tail - mount as root in /mnt: mount -t msdofs /dev/da0s1 /mnt - Copy / move files etc - umount /mnt - unplug If you read the handbook section, you will also be able to setup your system for user mounting, so you won't have to mount as root. Another useful piece of info is this: http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html With these instructions you can configure automounting in GUIs like Gnome (and XFCE and possibly others, as long as HAL is used) Bear in mind that no matter how you mounted the device, you will have to unmount it before physically removing it, otherwise you are in for a nasty surprise... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: USB Flash Drives
On Friday 12 December 2008 05:11:26 Manolis Kiagias wrote: fixer wrote: I just discovered flash drives. They are very easy to use on Windows. I don't know if FreeBSD supports these drives. But if FreeBSD does, I need instructions on how-to-use. Thanks in advance for anyone who can help. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/usb-disks.html Generally speaking, using an ms-dos (fat/fat32) formatted flash drive is as simple as this: - plug - get device name (probably da0) with dmesg |tail - mount as root in /mnt: mount -t msdofs /dev/da0s1 /mnt the one thing that ought to be added to the mount statement: use your username -- that way, if you're using something like konqueror, you don't have rights issues. I know some use perms and open it up for group or world write -- but username helps you keep up good habits, and good habits will keep you out of trouble. It's in the man page -- but here's a reminder: mount_msdosfs -u username /dev/da1s1 /mnt/usb ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: USB Flash Drives
fixer ord...@fixer.com writes: FreeBSD localhost 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007 r...@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 localhost# I just discovered flash drives. They are very easy to use on Windows. I don't know if FreeBSD supports these drives. But if FreeBSD does, I need instructions on how-to-use. Thanks in advance for anyone who can help. Rather than mounting the disks, I find it easier to use the mtools port (emulators/mtools). The commands look like the old ms-dos commands, and include a copy command. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
