can't mount msdos fs on freebsd6?

Alex Zbyslaw xfb52 at dial.pipex.com
Tue Dec 13 09:26:19 PST 2005


Jeff D. Hamann wrote:

> Strange, but I can mount an ntfs filesystem (dual boot machine) but 
> not the fat32 partition on a new freebsd 6.0 installation. The drive 
> contains three paritions:
>
> /dev/ad0s1 -- 30GB NTFS (winxp) mounted on /winxp
> /dev/ad0s2 -- 30GB FAT32 (data to be accessed by both winxp and 
> freebsd 6.0) mount point /data
> /dev/ad0s3 -- 30GB UFS (or whatever freebsd's file systems are) 
> /ad0s3(blah,blah,blah)
>
> The results I get back from mount are:
>
> mothra# mount -t msdos /dev/ad0s2 /data
> mount_msdosfs: /dev/ad0s2: Invalid argument

Are you sure its s2?  What does
    fdisk -s /dev/ad0

show?

I have a 20Gb FAT32 partition mounted right now - made with 
PartitionMagic rather than XP itself, but I wouldn't expect that to be 
the problem.

--Alex



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