From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 20 10:57:20 2002 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 7A4BE37B406 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 10:57:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web10105.mail.yahoo.com (web10105.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.130.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EF1F643E6A for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 10:57:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from twigles@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20020920175717.90186.qmail@web10105.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.5.49.41] by web10105.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 10:57:17 PDT Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 10:57:17 -0700 (PDT) From: twig les Subject: Can't mount my fat32 partition To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey all, for some reason I'm having a lot of trouble mounting a fat 32 partition, even though the book I have and the web site I found both said that it's a snap. The man page didn't help and a google search didn't either so here goes. I keep getting an invalid argument response when I try to mount my windoze partition (as root): L# mount_msdos /dev/ad0s3 /mnt mount_msdos: /dev/ad0s3: Invalid argument Here is my hard drive according to fdisk: Disk name: ad0 FDISK Partition Editor DISK Geometry: 1467 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 23567355 sectors (11507MB) Offset Size(MB) End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags 0 0 62 - 6 unused 0 63 2996 6136829 ad0s1 1 NTFS/HPFS/QNX 7 6136830 5498 17398394 ad0s2 3 freebsd 165 C 17398395 3012 23567354 ad0s3 4 extended 15 23567355 5 23579135 - 6 unused 0 And here is my OS: L# uname -a FreeBSD L.liza.com 4.6.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE-p2 #0: Mon Sep 16 13:41:26 PDT 2002 root@L.liza.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FW.safe i386 As you can see, fdisk (and partition magic 5.0) thinks that the fat32 partition is extended, but it is numbered as 3, when extended partitions are supposed to start at 5 (so I've read). Well ad0s5 doesn't exist and ad0s3 is clearly the 3gig fat32 I just formatted. Please help a poor confused soul. ===== ----------------------------------------------------------- Heavy metal made me do it. ----------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message