Re: problem mounting USB drive

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Ott Köstner <OttK@xxxxxx> wrote:

Antonio Vieiro wrote:


The fact that the drive is working on Windows does not mean it's FAT32
formatted. It may as well be NTFS formatted ("man mount_ntfs").

Doublecheck you're running a FAT32 system: FreeBSD is saying you're not.

Thank You! Looks better now, but the volume is still unusable.

# mount_ntfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/
root@Ott / # mount -v|grep da0
/dev/da0s1 on /mnt (ntfs, local, fsid 7100000008000000)

# df -H|grep da0
/dev/da0s1 160G 26G 134G 16% /mnt

...but all commands result with an error like this...

# ls -l /mnt/BACKUP
ls: /mnt/BACKUP: Argument list too long


That generally means there are too many files to process via default shell
memory settings. Something like:

find /mnt/BACKUP

should work in that case.

--
Adam Vande More
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