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I hope this can be useful to someone, those are commands I found useful regarding ntfs or fat usb devices since I started using freebsd.
To see available usb devices name:
or
To manually mount a ntfs usb drive(da0) partition(or slice) 1(s1):
You must had installed fusefs-ntfs. When you want to use it first type:
Then:
Format an usb drive to fat32:
Use dd to write zeros to the device(/dev/zero) starting 2mb(bs=2m) once(count=1). da0 is the usual name of the device if you only have one plugged in your laptop. If you do not use bs and count, it will erase all the usb stick and it will take a long time.
If needed to clear the usb stick, you can:
The below create a partition table, and then a fat32 partition.
The following will then create a fat 32 filesystem with the label you specify. The label will be your memory stick name.
To burn an iso to usb device:
To see available usb devices name:
Code:
geom disk listor
Code:
gpart showTo manually mount a ntfs usb drive(da0) partition(or slice) 1(s1):
You must had installed fusefs-ntfs. When you want to use it first type:
Code:
sudo kldload fuseThen:
Code:
sudo ntfs-3g /dev/da0s1 /YOURMOUNTPOINTFormat an usb drive to fat32:
Use dd to write zeros to the device(/dev/zero) starting 2mb(bs=2m) once(count=1). da0 is the usual name of the device if you only have one plugged in your laptop. If you do not use bs and count, it will erase all the usb stick and it will take a long time.
Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=2m count=1If needed to clear the usb stick, you can:
Code:
gpart destroy -F da0The below create a partition table, and then a fat32 partition.
Code:
gpart create -s mbr da0
gpart add -t fat32 da0The following will then create a fat 32 filesystem with the label you specify. The label will be your memory stick name.
Code:
newfs_msdos -L THENAMEYOUWANT -F 32 /dev/da0s1To burn an iso to usb device:
Code:
dd if=NAMEOFFILE of=/dev/da0