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From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: able to mount ad0s1, but unable to mount ad0s3!
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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