Question regarding mount

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razixx

Is it possible in FreeBSD to mount a usb device with a specific user and group id? Currently I'm following along in a book called "Absolute Freebsd 2nd Edition and came across this example, (book is based off of FreeBSD 7).

Code: 
mount -t msdosfs -u chris -g chris /dev/da0 /mnt

I substituted my name in the example, however when I execute it, I get a syntax error. Is this possible without slapping an entry in devfs.rules?

Thanks in advance,
Chris
 
Yes, see
% man mount | less -p Any

So the command is
Code: 
mount -t msdosfs -o -u=chris,-g=chris /dev/da0 /mnt

Possibly that should be /dev/da0s1 since most MS-DOS-formatted devices have partition tables.
 
Solved

Right on thanks a bunch! The above worked perfect, to be honest, I don't know why I didn't try that first as that is what I would have typed in if I were running on a linux box, after all BSD does have a different way of doing things sometimes. Pretty big error on the book's part but still a very very valuable resource. :p

I tried finding the right command in mount(8) but couldn't find anything similar to the above.
 
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