From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 27 19:55:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from out4.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (out4.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net [169.207.1.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2034837B718 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:55:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Alhazred@subdimension.com) Received: from pop0.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (pop0.nwbl.wi.voyager.net [169.207.1.115]) by out4.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2S3tYN65418 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 21:55:34 -0600 (CST) Received: from rainroom.sarnath.net (d101.as15.nwbl1.wi.voyager.net [169.207.88.229]) by pop0.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f2S3tXU50476 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 21:55:33 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 21:55:33 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <200103280355.f2S3tXU50476@pop0.nwbl.wi.voyager.net> From: Jaymes Xihler X-Mailer: Arrow 1.0.8 (X11; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE; i386) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: mounting problems... Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG im trying to mount a logical fat partition under fbsd. it is the only logical partition in my extended partition which is #3 on my primary master drive. mount -t msdos /dev/ad0s3 doesnt work....it says "invalid arguement". ive tried /dev/ad0s3x and /dev/ad0s3x (with x being every letter from a to g) still no luck. what am i doing wrong? below is the output of fdisk. thank you. -James rainroom# fdisk ******* Working on device /dev/ad0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=5606 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=5606 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 11,(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT) start 63, size 10249407 (5004 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 637/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 10249470, size 20466810 (9993 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 638/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 3 is: sysid 15,(Extended DOS, LBA) start 30716280, size 40965750 (20002 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 888/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 365/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 4 is: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message