Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 11:14:42 -0700 (PDT) From: twig les <twigles@yahoo.com> To: Matt Smith <matt@forsetti.com>, twig les <twigles@YAHOO.COM>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't mount my fat32 partition Message-ID: <20020920181442.92596.qmail@web10102.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1032545091.286.7.camel@localhost>
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Yes, I'm running 2000 and the first partition is NTFS. Yes, I made a seperate fat32 partition and yes, I did not do a MAKEDEV for ad0s5. As soon as I did that I was able to mount the drive. Thank you for the quick and accurate help...off to rip Blade 2!!! --- Matt Smith <matt@forsetti.com> wrote: > Are you running Windows 2000? It looks like you > have an NTFS partition > on ads02, which would probably be your C: drive in > Windows. Is that > what you are trying to mount? If so, you really > need: > mount -tntfs /dev/ad0s2 /mnt > which will mount that drive read-only (NTFS is not > writable yet, AFAIK) > > OR did you create a different FAT32 partition? If > you created your own > separate FAT32 partition, did you create a logical > partition, IN the > extended partition? if so, try: > > cd /dev > sh MAKEDEV ad0s5 > mount_msdos /dev/ad0s5 /mnt > > Hope that helps, > -Matt > > > On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 13:57, twig les wrote: > > 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 > > > > ===== ----------------------------------------------------------- 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
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