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Old 21st October 2011
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Default How do I correctly mount a flash drive in OpenBSD?

Hello,

Would someone explain how to correctly mount, and write to, a thumb drive. I can read from the thumb drive but I cannot save to the thumb drive; I keep getting 'error saving' file or 'no such directory'.

Here's what I'm doing:

dmesg
Code:
umass0 at uhub0 port 5 configuration 1 interface 0 "Generic USB TO IDE Bridge" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 2
umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only
scsibus2 at umass0: 2 targets, initiator 0
sd0 at scsibus2 targ 1 lun 0: <Generic, USB Disk, 9.02> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd0: 38154MB, 512 bytes/sec, 78140160 sec total
disklabel sd0i
Code:
# /dev/rsd0i:
type: SCSI
disk: SCSI disk
label: USB Disk        
duid: 0000000000000000
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 255
sectors/cylinder: 16065
cylinders: 4864
total sectors: 78140160
boundstart: 0
boundend: 78140160
drivedata: 0 

16 partitions:
#                size           offset  fstype [fsize bsize  cpg]
  c:         78140160                0  unused                   
  i:         78140097               63    NTFS

df
Filesystem  512-blocks      Used     Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/wd0a      2057756     84508   1870364     4%    /
/dev/wd0k     64449016   1215432  60011136     2%    /home
/dev/wd0d      8250812       168   7838104     0%    /tmp
/dev/wd0f      4122108    733616   3182388    19%    /usr
/dev/wd0g      2057756    323184   1631688    17%    /usr/X11R6
/dev/wd0h     14274172   3161504  10398960    23%    /usr/local
/dev/wd0j      4122108         4   3916000     0%    /usr/obj
/dev/wd0i      4122108         4   3916000     0%    /usr/src
/dev/wd0e     10312732     39460   9757636     0%    /var
/dev/sd0i     78140096  26062456  52077640    33%    /mnt/pen
mount -w -t ntfs /dev/sd0i /mnt/pen

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Old 21st October 2011
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OpenBSD's NTFS implementation is read-only.
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Old 21st October 2011
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Your procedure to find the disklabel of the USB drive is perfect
You only seem not be aware of the following from mount_ntfs

Code:
   Limited support for writing
     There is limited writing ability for files.  Limitations:

     o   file must be non-resident
     o   file must not contain any holes (uninitialized areas)
     o   file can't be compressed

     Note that it's not currently possible to create or remove files on NTFS
     filesystems.

     Warning: do not mount NTFS filesystems read-write.  The write support is
     not very useful and is not tested well.  It's not safe to write to any
     file on NTFS; you might damage the filesystem.  Unless you want to debug
     NTFS filesystem code, mount the NTFS filesystem read-only.
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In -current, write support is completely removed and no longer documented in the man page.

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The supported NTFS versions include both NTFS4, as used by Microsoft
Windows NT 4.0, and NTFS5, as used by Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP.
Only read-only operation is permitted, which is automatically enforced.
The risk for corruption was high, and nobody maintains it.. so there was little sense pretending it was supported.
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Old 22nd October 2011
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That explains why I couldn't save anything. I don't know why I glazed over that man file. I've learned to backup everything, but there doesn't appear to be any damage to the files on the thumb drive (Firefox add-on, scrapbook folder and portable apps). Other than this episode I'm having fun with OpenBSD, six days in.

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Old 22nd October 2011
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TOther than this episode I'm having fun with OpenBSD, six days in.

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Welcome to our community!

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