From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 23 12:55:10 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24D10106566B for ; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:55:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from april.london.02.net (april.london.02.net [87.194.255.143]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAEF08FC08 for ; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:55:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eco.config (93.97.24.219) by april.london.02.net (8.5.016.1) id 4A23ECF8076F2131 for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:55:08 +0000 Message-ID: <4B5AF1AC.8090409@onetel.com> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:55:08 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091212) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: What sort of file system is this and how to mount it? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:55:10 -0000 Hi I have a 120gb SATA disk with the following> eco# fdisk ad4 ******* Working on device /dev/ad4 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=232581 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=232581 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 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 238 (0xee),(EFI GPT) start 1, size 234441647 (114473 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: eco# gpart show ad4 => 34 234441581 ad4 GPT (112G) 34 6 - free - (3.0K) 40 409600 1 efi (200M) 409640 233769824 2 !48465300-0000-11aa-aa11-00306543ecac (111G) 234179464 262151 - free - (128M) eco# ls /dev/ad4* /dev/ad4 /dev/ad4p1 /dev/ad4p2 eco# mount_msdosfs /dev/ad4p1 /mnt eco# find /mnt /mnt /mnt/EFI /mnt/EFI/APPLE /mnt/EFI/APPLE/EXTENSIONS /mnt/EFI/APPLE/EXTENSIONS/Firmware.scap eco# umount /mnt That makes me think ad4p2 is HFS or HFS+ so I installed hfsexplorer (http://hem.bredband.net/catacombae/hfsx.html) and it tells me ad4p2 is an invalid HFS type. So try a few other things eco# mount /dev/ad4p2 /mnt mount: /dev/ad4p2 : Invalid argument eco# mount_msdosfs /dev/ad4p2 /mnt mount_msdosfs: /dev/ad4p2: Invalid argument eco# mount -t ext2fs /dev/ad4p2 /mnt mount: /dev/ad4p2 : Invalid argument Any ideas? FreeBSD eco.config 8.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1 #0: Fri Dec 11 14:40:08 GMT 2009 root@eco.config:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 thanks Chris