From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jul 10 13:47:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D7ED37B403 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:47:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b115.otenet.gr [195.167.121.243]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f6AKl9F26432; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 23:47:10 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6AKl8w46447; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 23:47:08 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon) To: GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions #2 References: From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 10 Jul 2001 23:47:04 +0300 In-Reply-To: GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI's message of "Tue, 10 Jul 2001 15:59:19 -0300" Message-ID: <86hewk4ily.fsf@hades.hell.gr> Lines: 30 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI writes: > I need to mount a FAT partition (slave disk of 1st IDE drive) to read > some files. Is msdos de right option type for this kind of filesystem? > Is there a option type fat or vfat? Did you try ? I mean, ok, nobody has a problem telling you the command line (which is also shown below), but did you do basic research on how this could be done? Read the manpages? Anyways, what you want is filesystem-type 'msdos', and to mount the `slice' and not a `partition' in the slice. # mount -t msdos /dev/ad0s1 /mnt [ this will correctly try to mount slice 1 of atapi disk 0, to /mnt ] Do not try mounting a partition in the slice, as shown below. You'll get an error, since the FAT partition does not have a valid disklabel. # mount -t msdos /dev/ad0s1c /mnt msdosfs: /dev/ad0s1c: Invalid argument -giorgos PS: Please do not post questions on this list. Use -questions the next time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message