Copying files from USB device via shell

[ChapterSevenSeeds]

So, I am quite new to FreeNAS. I recently got a server up and running with the newest version of FreeNAS. I have a single raidz2 pool with 4 6TB drives. I am liking everything so far except that it seems like it takes an act of congress to copy files from a USB device connected to the server tower to the raidz2 pool. I am wanting to make this our home media server and as I'm ripping movies, the performance of samba over the network just doesn't seem fast enough for bulk transfers. If I just directly plug in a USB flash drive with the movies, copying would be worlds faster.

So, when I plug in a flash drive, the console sees it and the WebUI sees it under Storage -> Disks as /dev/da4. All I want to do is copy the contents of this drive into /mnt/Stuff/Share. I have tried a few things such as

Code:

sudo mount -rw /dev/da4 /mnt/usb1234

and

Code:

ntfs-3g /dev/da4 /mnt/usb1234

and the Import Disk utility in the WebUI. Each of these will sit and run for a few minutes and eventually give up with some sort of message similar to this:

The other odd thing is that this drive only has one partition (when viewing it with my Windows machine). However, the presence of the da4p1-da4p6 make it seem like there are 6 partitions? Why is that? I have also tried to mount most of the 6 partitions with errors identical to the one above. Does anyone have any clues what I am doing wrong?

 

[JohnDigital]

So what happens is youll import USB devices. This is done via the GUI.

What youll end up with is a new dataset in a pool with the entire contents of the usb inside of it, after which you can easily file it where you need to via CLI or whatnot.

 

[ChapterSevenSeeds]

It turns out that the issue was that FreeNAS wasn't liking the SATA to USB adapter I was using. I tried this again with a regular flash drive and it worked just fine.