Mounting Exfat USB Hard Disk

jbehnke747

Hello everyone,
I’m new to NetBSD, and I have a question I’d like to ask. I am difficulty figuring out how to mount my 2TB Seagate external USB hard disk in NetBSD 10. I have installed fuse-exfat from pkgsrc. When plugged in, dmesg says the drive is located at /dev/sd1. Would someone please help instruct me how to properly mount this drive? Thank you!

jbehnke747 # mount /dev/sd1 /path/some location ?

vsis

jbehnke747 for FAT filesystems the command is mount_msdos.

But a 2TB drive should be formatted with something like NTFS. If you try # disklabel /dev/sd1 you should be able to see what are the partitions and their formats. Probably is just one partition with NTFS.

For NTFS the command is mount_ntfs.

bsduck

On FreeBSD, the binary provided by fuse-exfat is mount.exfat, it is probably the same on NetBSD.

arpnsh

i use NetBsd 10.1, i have exactly same problem, there is no documentation how to mount exfat,
fortunately im able to mout my exfat usb here how i do it

in order to mount exfat with fuse-exfat, you need know it label with
disklabel sd1

find fstype MSDOS

if label is e, you can mount it with this command
mount_puffs mount.exfat#/dev/sd1e <mountpoint>