From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 21:52:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BACB116A4CE for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:52:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from fed1mtao01.cox.net (fed1mtao01.cox.net [68.6.19.244]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDA2143D39 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:52:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from xcas@cox.net) Received: from cox.net ([68.2.134.143]) by fed1mtao01.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20040130055236.ZMTT244.fed1mtao01.cox.net@cox.net>; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:52:36 -0500 Message-ID: <4019F169.7080708@cox.net> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 22:53:45 -0700 From: "Greg J." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting msdos partitions buggy? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 05:52:38 -0000 > Have you verified that your FAT partition is not corrupted by running > fsck_msdos against it? fsck_msdosfs doesn't even seem to recognize it.. I know there's nothing wrong with the partition. I even did a clean install of FreeBSD & Win2k... and moved the fat32 partition to another drive. But I still get the same behaviour. localhost# fsck_msdosfs /dev/ad1s5 ** /dev/ad1s5 backup doesn't compare to primary bootblock localhost# mount -t msdos /dev/ad1s5 /msdos localhost# fsck_msdosfs /msdos ** /msdos (NO WRITE) Invalid signature in boot block: ffff