Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:38:11 -0600 From: Joshua Lokken <joshua.lokken@gmail.com> To: Brian Bobowski <bbobowski@cogeco.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't mount windows partition Message-ID: <bc5b638504120208385ccc31b9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <41AEE38E.6090201@cogeco.ca> References: <41A6FD07.1020900@adelphia.net> <8292450b04113010165bc95e74@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.BSF.4.50L0.0412021147210.48560-100000@arc.itb.ac.id> <41AEE38E.6090201@cogeco.ca>
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On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 04:42:38 -0500, Brian Bobowski <bbobowski@cogeco.ca> 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
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