Jail with Temporary USB support

[redtofu]

Hi,
Im trying to transfer my old drive contents,

I want to give my jail "temporary usb drive" support so that i can mount and transfer the data.

what is the way to do that.

 

[toddos]

If you're just copying data, why do you need to do this in the jail at all?

 

[redtofu]

The data is in an ext4 drive
and I am running freenas in a usb stick. I was planning on using the fusefs-ext4fuse package to mount and transfer that data.

If you got some tips im game.

:D

 

[ProtoSD]

You'll probably need to change the device rules for the jail. I don't remember which file that is off the top of my head, but it will mean making the root filesystem on FreeNAS read-write so you can edit it. Probably in /conf/base/etc somewhere.

The next problem is whether the fusefs-ext4fuse package requires any special kernel modules or access, which could be a show stopper for this plan.

Don't try and install that package outside the jail or you're asking for problems. How much data are you talking about transferring? You might get things done a bit faster sharing it from another system and copying it with rsync over the network.

 

[redtofu]

:( dang it, this is starting to get pretty damn annoying. luckily the simple plan of transfering from another system will work.

Thanks