how to mount external hard disk ?

[bsdnewbie999]

I use the same command to mount external hard disk as pendrive but i got "invalid argument" error. Here is the command

mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt

[jb_daefo]

maybe if you do
da0s1
da0
da0s1
the third time will work. Worked here on a thumbdrive, maybe
with camcontrol -a (or -all) also.
or maybe the da0s1 are da0s1a ...

[bsdnewbie999]

nope, it doesn't work. Anyone know how to mount external hard disk?

[Carpetsmoker]

Is da0s1 a FAT partition? Is da0s1 the correct device name?

[bsdnewbie999]

hmmm, maybe you are right. What if the external hard disk is NTFS partition? How do i mount it? As da0s1, I'm not very sure because i use that to mount pendrive all the time.

[corey_james]

Have a look at ntfsprogs

[bsdnewbie999]

Problem solved.
I use the command

mount -t ntfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt