Re: Reformatting little USB-harddisks

2016-03-08 Thread Swift Griggs
On Tue, 8 Mar 2016, Andrew Cagney wrote: One got ya! They can be slow to come online and may not be ready if you're trying to use or mount it during boot. This is especially slow for some reason on WD drives with SES. I have a 2TB WD USB3 drive for backups that has this issue. It's fine

Re: Reformatting little USB-harddisks

2016-03-08 Thread Andrew Cagney
On 8 March 2016 at 11:13, herbert langhans wrote: > Hi List, > you sure know these little external USB-harddisks, often used for laptops > or basic backups. Like WD-Passport and Seagate Expansion and whatever > they name them. > > They come FAT formatted, right? Has anyone

Re: Reformatting little USB-harddisks

2016-03-08 Thread herbert langhans
Most of these that I've used work just fine. You end up mounting them as /dev/sdXe and use mount_msdos. /dev/sdXe is just a made up disklabel that the machine makes to temporarily deal with it. Some come formatted with ExFAT now which is not compatible with NetBSD, and

Re: Reformatting little USB-harddisks

2016-03-08 Thread herbert langhans
From: Travis Paul [160308 18:36] > They come FAT formatted, right? Has anyone of you tried to > reformat them for NetBSD? I guess its not a big thing, but I wonder if I > can buy any brand (need it for portable server backup and need GID/UID) or > there

Re: Reformatting little USB-harddisks

2016-03-08 Thread Greg Troxel
Andy Ruhl writes: > On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 9:13 AM, herbert langhans wrote: >> Hi List, >> you sure know these little external USB-harddisks, often used for laptops >> or basic backups. Like WD-Passport and Seagate Expansion and whatever >> they name

Re: Reformatting little USB-harddisks

2016-03-08 Thread Andy Ruhl
On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 9:13 AM, herbert langhans wrote: > Hi List, > you sure know these little external USB-harddisks, often used for laptops > or basic backups. Like WD-Passport and Seagate Expansion and whatever > they name them. > > They come FAT formatted, right? Has

Reformatting little USB-harddisks

2016-03-08 Thread herbert langhans
Hi List, you sure know these little external USB-harddisks, often used for laptops or basic backups. Like WD-Passport and Seagate Expansion and whatever they name them. They come FAT formatted, right? Has anyone of you tried to reformat them for NetBSD? I guess its not a big thing, but I wonder