From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 3 16:25:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f198.law3.hotmail.com [209.185.241.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38C5737B718 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 16:25:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from xoneill@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 16:25:22 -0800 Received: from 65.65.201.114 by lw3fd.law3.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sun, 04 Mar 2001 00:25:22 GMT X-Originating-IP: [65.65.201.114] From: "Xavier O'Neill" To: siegbert.baude@gmx.de Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting fat partitions problem Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 00:25:22 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Mar 2001 00:25:22.0765 (UTC) FILETIME=[99DDBFD0:01C0A441] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: The data for partition 4 is: 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 To: "Xavier O'Neill" CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting fat partitions problem Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 23:49:50 +0100 _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message