# [OmniOS-discuss] [smartos-discuss] Re: Mount NTFS USB under OmniOS

Jay Fenton na.nu at na.nu
Sun Dec 30 09:27:01 EST 2012

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    Hi Fabio,

    I'd suggest the easiest (and I use the term loosely) way to do this
    would be to bring up a Linux VM and, assuming it's supported, pass
    the raw USB device through to it. You can then mount your zpool via
    NFS from the global zone.

    I'm using SmartOS, and vmadm(1m) seems to imply that the -usb and
    -usbdevice are supported through qemu_opts. I'm not sure what value
    you would use for -usbdevice as it's normally host:VendorID:ProductID,
    and normally you can find these from /sbin/lsusb on Linux - not sure
    of the equivalent in Solaris land.

    Hope that helps.

    Best Regards,

    Jay Fenton

    On 30 Dec 2012, at 20:46, "Fabio Rodrigues" <fabior at gmx.net> wrote:

    > Hi All,
    >
    > Sorry for the "SPAM" to the other lists, but I'm just trying to find a solution for this. I didn't want to compile a ntfs-3g module on my machine, because maybe there's already something ready for it.
    >
    > I believe this would be useful not only for NTFS USBs, but for any kind.
    >
    > Any help will be appreciated ;-)
    >
    > Cheers,
    > Fabio
    >
    >
    >> ----- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -----
    >> Von: Fabio Rodrigues
    >> Gesendet: 25.12.12 01:32 Uhr
    >> An: omnios-discuss at lists.omniti.com
    >> Betreff: Mount NTFS USB under OmniOS
    >>  Hi All,
    >>
    >> First of all, I've been using OmniOS stable Home for the last few weeks on a HP Microserver NL36 (8GB RAM). It's performing very well, but I'm still getting used with the OS. I've been using Solaris for a good few years so I'm not that rusty...
    >>
    >> Now, I was trying to find out how to mount the USB (Iomega eGo 500GB, NTFS), but there's no guidelines on how to make my life easier. The intention is to mount some of my USB devices and copy the data to my zpool.
    >>
    >> If any of you could help me with some guides and also if there's any option to add it as an automount (kind of like Linux does), let me know please.
    >>
    >> Thank you very much in advance and Happy Xmas ;-)
    >>
    >> Cheers,
    >>
    >> ---
    >> Fabio Rodrigues
    >> fabior at gmx.net
    >
    >
    >
    > ---
    > Fabio Rodrigues
    > fabior at gmx.net
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