Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:17:09 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: able to mount ad0s1, but unable to mount ad0s3! Message-ID: <42FA3695.6040103@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <200508101617.j7AGHudS011742@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <200508101617.j7AGHudS011742@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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Jerry McAllister wrote: >> Well, my FreeBSD reside in ad0s2. While ad0s1 and ad0s3 is for Windows. >> >> Both ad0s1 and ad0s3 are NTFS. I can easily mount ad0s1 by typing the >> following command: >> mount -t ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt >> >> However, when I tried to mount ad0s3 using the same command, it does >> never work. The error message is just as this: >> Kenny# mount -t ntfs /dev/ad0s3/ /mnt >> ntfs: /dev/ad0s3: Invalid argument >> >> > > > Was /dev/ad0s1 still mounted? > You would need a different mount point. > > The only other difference I can see is the trailing / in the second one. > > ////jerry > > That trailing '/' would be the cause of the issue since the nodes for disk paritions/slices are seen by the FS as flat files in FreeBSD and not directories. -Garrett
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