problem mounting USB drive

Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com
Tue Aug 10 17:32:20 UTC 2010


On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Ott Köstner <OttK at zzz.ee> wrote:

> Adam Vande More wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Ott Köstner <OttK at zzz.ee> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> # df -H|grep da0
>>> /dev/da0s1       160G     26G    134G    16%    /mnt
>>>
>>> ...but all commands result with an error like this...
>>>
>>> # ls -l /mnt/BACKUP
>>> ls: /mnt/BACKUP: Argument list too long
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> That generally means there are too many files to process via default shell
>> memory settings.  Something like:
>>
>> find /mnt/BACKUP
>>
>> should work in that case.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Yes, generally this means that there are too many files, but not in this
> case. Even find gives me:
>
> # find /mnt/BACKUP
> find: /mnt/BACKUP: Argument list too long
>
> or
>
> # ls -ld /mnt/BACKUP
>
> ls: /mnt/BACKUP: Argument list too long
>
> Some directories are not big at all. My question is, is is a FreeBSD
> problem here, or is there something wrong with the drive (or am I doing
> something wrong here)?
> For some reason my BSD does not want to eat that drive...
>

Apparently that's a known bug kern/136873

you can try sysutils/ntfsprogs to mount it.



-- 
Adam Vande More


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