mounting usb drives in BSD

sharathg786 · 07-22-2007, 03:24 AM

Hi, i use FreeBSD 6.2, how do i mount usb drives(flash drives), i tried giving this command but failed:

Code:

mount -t msdosfs /dev/usb /home/axa/usb
mount_msdosfs: /dev/usb3: Block device required

I even tried this:

Code:

foo# kldload usb
kldload: can't load usb: File exists
foo# kldload umass
kldload: can't load umass: File exists

nslay · 07-22-2007, 12:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sharathg786

Hi, i use FreeBSD 6.2, how do i mount usb drives(flash drives), i tried giving this command but failed:

Code:

mount -t msdosfs /dev/usb /home/axa/usb
mount_msdosfs: /dev/usb3: Block device required

I even tried this:

Code:

foo# kldload usb
kldload: can't load usb: File exists
foo# kldload umass
kldload: can't load umass: File exists

FreeBSD, and well all the major BSDs, treat USB mass storage as a SCSI disk (/dev/da# in FreeBSD). FreeBSD 6.2 did add support for umass->atapi, but I haven't tried it yet.
Try:

Quote:

mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0 /home/axa/usb

If you have a partition table on your USB device, you might have to append s# to da0 to distinguish the partition your filesystem is on (e.g. /dev/da0s1 for partition 1).

llista · 07-31-2007, 09:55 AM

In my case I have to use da0s1 as a name for the USB device