Mounting an External USB drive to FreeNAS especially useful when creating backups or transferring files and so on…
The following method shows, mounting an External USB NTFS formatted drive on FreeNAS (FreeNAS-9.2.0-RELEASE-x64)
Login to FreeNAS via Terminal and run dmesg, you will see a similar output once you plugged in the USB Drive.
ugen3.2: <seagate> at usbus3
umas<strong>s1</strong>: </seagate><seagate Expansion Desk, class 0/0, rev 2.10/1.00, addr 2> on usbus3
<strong>da1</strong> at umass-sim1 bus 1 scbus8 target 0 lun 0
da1: </seagate><seagate Expansion Desk 070B> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-6 device
da1: 40.000MB/s transfers
da1: 3815447MB (976754645 4096 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 60800C)
da1: quirks=0x2
...
</seagate>
From the above output, we can distinguish the device in question is /dev/da1s1
Now, Make a Mount Point as follows…
mkdir /mnt/usbext
Make sure the fuse.ko module is loaded by running the following command. You should see a similar output…
[nish@freenas] /mnt# kldstat | grep fuse
23 1 0xffffffff81a61000 aac3 fuse.ko
[nish@freenas] /mnt#
If not, load the module by running the following command…
kldload /usr/local/modules/fuse.ko
Finally, mount the drive to the Mount Point we created earlier…
mount -t ntfs /dev/da1s1 /mnt/usbext/