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Old 2nd September 2011
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Lightbulb write file into usb - operation not supported

Hi Folks,

I need some light here... I have a removable HD. This one I partitioned in 3 parts.

I mounted the 3rd partition of this removable HD.

mount /dev/sd0k /mnt/pen

Then tried to write a file into my HD, just like that
cp /home/username/bookmark/bookmarks.html /mnt/pen/data003/bookmarks/bookmarks.html

Then I receive this message:
Operation not supported

The other way around works fine, i.e. I can copy file from this same device into my home directory. But I can not write/copy to the USB HD.

Previously I did such copy file writing to device successfully, but it was for a simple USB pendrive, not a USB HD partitioned in 3 parts.

So. What is the problem for this case?

All comments and suggestions are highly appreciated.
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Post the output from # fdisk sd0 and # disklabel sd0 please.
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Just to let you know what I suspect, threaderslash, see the BUGS section of the mount_ntfs(8) man page.
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@jggimi...
Code:
# fdisk sd0
Disk: sd0	geometry: 19457/255/63 [312581808 Sectors]
Offset: 0	Signature: 0xAA55
            Starting         Ending         LBA Info:
 #: id      C   H   S -      C   H   S [       start:        size ]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 0: 0B      0   1   1 -   6485 254  63 [          63:   104197527 ] Win95 FAT-32
*1: 0B   6486   0   1 -  12971 254  63 [   104197590:   104197590 ] Win95 FAT-32
 2: 07  12972  17  38 -  19457  21  20 [   208396288:   104181760 ] NTFS        
 3: 00      0   0   0 -      0   0   0 [           0:           0 ] unused
and
Code:
# disklabel sd0
# /dev/rsd0c:
type: SCSI
disk: SCSI disk
label: 1600BEV External
duid: 0000000000000000
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 255
sectors/cylinder: 16065
cylinders: 19457
total sectors: 312581808
boundstart: 0
boundend: 312581808
drivedata: 0 

16 partitions:
#                size           offset  fstype [fsize bsize  cpg]
  c:        312581808                0  unused                   
  i:        104197527               63   MSDOS                   
  j:        104197590        104197590   MSDOS                   
  k:        104181760        208396288    NTFS
So, it is there and mounted. Just it does not allow writing into it.

I also looked at http://nixdoc.net/man-pages/openbsd/...nt_ntfs.8.html but no clue.

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If you look at the bottom of the displayed manpage, http://nixdoc.net is displaying information from OpenBSD 3.6 -- which was released November 2004.

The manpage for mount_ntfs(8) for OpenBSD 4.9-release states:
Code:
    The write support should be enhanced to actually be able to change file
     size, and to create and remove files and directories.  It's not very
     useful right now.
Reading from NTFS partitions should be fine. Write to NTFS partitions at your own peril.
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threaderslash, if your goal is to simply use a flash drive for storage, consider formatting as FFS as described in Section 14.17 of the FAQ.

If your goal is to share files with Windows, use the lowest common denominator, MS-DOS.

NTFS support is currently limited to reading (reliably...).
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If you're wanting a read-writable "foreign" filesystem, it's best to either use ext2 or.. FAT32 with tar/dump files to preserve permissions.
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Lightbulb solved

Now it worked. I just copied the file to the FAT-32 partition. Thank you all!
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Quote:
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Quote:
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If you look at the bottom of the displayed manpage, http://nixdoc.net is displaying information from OpenBSD 3.6 -- which was released November 2004.
Threaderslash, if you did not install the man*.tgz fileset when you installed OpenBSD, you can add it to your system now by following the instructions in FAQ 4.11. In addition, every one of the mirrors of the OpenBSD project website have a link to web based manuals, where you can even compare different versions of individual man pages from release to release.
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Originally Posted by Theo's_email_to_root_at_install
For more information on how to set up your OpenBSD system, refer to the
"afterboot" man page (i.e. after you exit the mail subsystem, type
"man afterboot"). If you are not familiar with how to read man pages, type
"man man" at a shell prompt and read the entire thing. Pay specific
attention to the "man -k keyword" option, which will permit you to find the
man page you are looking for more easily; for instance, "man -k ethernet"....


Again, PLEASE READ THE MANUAL PAGES. Our developers have spent countless
hours improving them so that they are clear and precise.
And, from afterboot(8):
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     used to using the high quality manual pages.
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