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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: "Jeff D. Hamann" <jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com>
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Subject: Re: can't mount msdos fs on freebsd6?
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On 2005-12-13 09:08, "Jeff D. Hamann" <jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com> 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
> mothra#

Try with -t msdosfs.  There is no /sbin/mount_msdos program in my
laptop's installation.