Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 00:25:22 From: "Xavier O'Neill" <xoneill@hotmail.com> To: siegbert.baude@gmx.de Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting fat partitions problem Message-ID: <F198OkyIoErkgeSvKHJ00014e13@hotmail.com>
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Hi Xavier,
> When I go to mount the other fat 32's
> mount -t msdos /dev/ad0s2 /whatever
> I get mount: invalid mount option or something to that affect.
>
> and I tried others things like ad2s1 (a)(b)(e) etc..
Try ad0s5 and ad2s4 (mabe ad2s5 also, if it an extended partition)
Ciao
Siegbert
P.S.: If it doesn work give us the output of fdisk on your ad0 and
ad2.
Hi Siegbert,
Thanks for the quick response :)
I tried the ad2s4 previously went back tried out the other two (no luck)
here is the output of ad0 and ad2 respectively:
ad0:
---------------
******* Working on device /dev/ad0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=2482 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=2482 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 11,(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT)
start 63, size 10249407 (5004 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
end: cyl 637/ sector 63/ head 254
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 11,(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT)
start 10249470, size 29623860 (14464 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 638/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
ad2:
---------------
******* Working on device /dev/ad2 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=19780 heads=32 sectors/track=63 (2016 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=19780 heads=32 sectors/track=63 (2016 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 63, size 1433313 (699 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
end: cyl 710/ sector 63/ head 31
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 1433376, size 29121120 (14219 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 711/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 31
The data for partition 3 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 30554496, size 163296 (79 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 255;
end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 31
The data for partition 4 is:
sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB))
start 30717792, size 9158688 (4472 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 255;
end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 31
From: Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de>
To: "Xavier O'Neill" <xoneill@hotmail.com>
CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: mounting fat partitions problem
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 23:49:50 +0100
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