Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 12:34:13 -0700 From: "Brian M. Kincaid" <bmk@adsl-64-174-159-18.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net> To: Tom Limoncelli <tal@lumeta.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems mounting fat32 slice Message-ID: <200207021934.g62JYDAE000398@adsl-64-174-159-18.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Jul 2002 11:44:26 EDT." <3D2078DA.C8230947@lumeta.com>
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Hi, Have a look at the section on "secondary DOS partition" at this URL. I have successfully mounted FAT32 non-primary partitions. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#MOUNT-DOS Brian In message <3D2078DA.C8230947@lumeta.com>, Tom Limoncelli writes: >I had this problem myself and a co-worker figured it out. FreeBSD won't >see a FAT32 partion unless it is a primary partition. > >Use Partition Magic or similar software to change the FAT32 partition to be >a primary partion and you should be set. > >I consider this to be a bug in FreeBSD. > >--tal > > >uwi mAn wrote: >> >> # mount -t msdos /dev/ad0s2 /xp >> fixlabel: raw partition size > slice size >> msdos: /dev/ad0s2: Invalid argument >> # dmesg |grep ad0s2 >> ad0s2: raw partition size != slice size >> ad0s2: start 2104515, end 19615364, size 17510850 >> ad0s2c: start 2104515, end 40082174, size 37977660 >> ad0s2: truncating raw partition >> >> XP on it works very peachy. >> >> Whats that? > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian M. Kincaid PGP Key: http://wwwkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x33656401 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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