Help Mounting FAT32 USB Drive

[PosGuy]

I'm trying to mount a 1TB Fat32 usb drive to transfer backup files to the my freenas 8 (beta4).

This is the command I'm using:

mount_msdosfs -o large /dev/ada0s1a /mnt/usb

I get the result of Operation not permitted. Any ideas? (I've also tried ada0 &ada0s1, also tried su to see if a privilege thing)


I'm basing the ada0s1a on the result of camcontrol devlist which is this:

<WDC WD800AAJB-00J3A0 01.03E01> at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (ada0,pass0)

 

[ProtoSD]

I'm trying to mount a 1TB Fat32 usb drive to transfer backup files to the my freenas 8 (beta4).

You mean like 8.0 beta 4??

Yikes, you need to upgrade.

I can't say I've even been able to get FAT32 to work from either the GUI or command line. The only one I've had success with is NTFS which was fixed in 8.03.

I think your "operation not permitted" error is because the root filesystem mounted read-only, try "mount -uw /" and then give your original command another try.

 

[PosGuy]

I'm running 8.0.4, not beta 4. I feel like an idiot. I was trying to mount the drive running the OS. The device slice location was really da0s1. Finally got it to mount after that.