From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 2 16:38:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC15916A4CE for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 16:38:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44A0943D49 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 16:38:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joshua.lokken@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 36so34933wra for ; Thu, 02 Dec 2004 08:38:11 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=rrzC3ukDO6mKSD8LPtepvDP4ptlwwWnQXYaIbkNsvwbERrFa/+PaM6ReLkEfaxzXRKaddZFRm67/1QgPn25wIR59t+FAzZ0MBO26LTOlGId6c/81ovWgmNKbPaLEDUp6QkUhcY1VgT7AM+FxCkhM49VzwjeRQkscno3Wq4Yqa/Y= Received: by 10.54.27.9 with SMTP id a9mr1324527wra; Thu, 02 Dec 2004 08:38:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.11.34 with HTTP; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 08:38:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:38:11 -0600 From: Joshua Lokken To: Brian Bobowski In-Reply-To: <41AEE38E.6090201@cogeco.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <41A6FD07.1020900@adelphia.net> <8292450b04113010165bc95e74@mail.gmail.com> <41AEE38E.6090201@cogeco.ca> cc: Rizal Ferdiyan cc: Kevin Smith cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't mount windows partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Joshua Lokken List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 16:38:12 -0000 On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 04:42:38 -0500, Brian Bobowski wrote: > Rizal Ferdiyan wrote: > > > > >hello ; > >my name rizal from indonesia, I have a problem. My partition windows > >(FAT > >32) can't mount > >in freebsd. My partition in /dev/ad0s1 and /dev/ad0s2. I have been try > >write"mount -t msdosfs /dev/ad0s1(ad0s2) /mnt/win1(ad0s1) and > >mount_msdosfs /node " but it don't work. Please help me and sorry for my > >bad english. > > > >thank you. > > > > > Please provide the error text and the output of "uname -a" if this > doesn't work, but... > > Are you certain that it's a FAT32 disk and not an NTFS? Windows XP, for > instance, can use the NTFS file system(my Home edition does by default). > > That said, there is a problem with your mount syntax. That or I can't > figure out exactly what you're typing. > > I don't know which of your disk partitions is which. I'm going to give > examples as though /dev/ad0s1 is the Windows partition and /dev/ad0s2 is > the FreeBSD slice; in /dev, such a slice would show up with letters > after the "slice" number to indicate the FreeBSD partition, such as > /dev/ad0s2a, ad0s2c, ad0s2d... etc. (I believe b is not currently used, > left open for convention; a is for the / partition; and c is swap. I believe that a is normally /; b is normally swap; c is normally the overlay partition (whole disk), and not used. -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate