From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 13 18:49:09 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CC2F16A41F for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:49:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tino.boss.1@student.unibe.ch) Received: from mailhub03.unibe.ch (mailhub03.unibe.ch [130.92.9.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 100C543D5D for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:49:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tino.boss.1@student.unibe.ch) Received: from localhost (scanhub02-eth0.unibe.ch [130.92.254.66]) by mailhub03.unibe.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23ECC24417; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:49:07 +0100 (CET) Received: from mailhub03.unibe.ch ([130.92.9.70]) by localhost (scanhub02.unibe.ch [130.92.254.66]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 14304-07-50; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:49:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from ubecx01 (ubecx01.unibe.ch [130.92.6.40]) by mailhub03.unibe.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id F35A324448; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:49:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from [130.92.134.86] (dcb-leum2.unibe.ch [130.92.134.86]) by ubecx01.unibe.ch (PMDF V5.2-32 #42481) with ESMTP id <0IRG00DLU9LSNM@ubecx01.unibe.ch>; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:49:04 +0100 (MET) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:49:04 +0100 From: Tino Boss In-reply-to: <004701c60007$dc095cd0$0a00a8c0@rodan> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <439F17A0.3090307@student.unibe.ch> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <004701c60007$dc095cd0$0a00a8c0@rodan> X-Virus-checked: by University of Berne Cc: "Jeff D. Hamann" Subject: Re: can't mount msdos fs on freebsd6? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:49:09 -0000 Jeff D. Hamann wrote: > mothra# mount -t msdos /dev/ad0s2 /data > mount_msdosfs: /dev/ad0s2: Invalid argument I remember having had a similar problem and it was just a that it was an extended partition and somehow it was not displayed with the correct number in some utility. If that's your case you might just need another device-name. I think numbering for extended partitions starts at 5 (eg. ad0s5). regards Tino >