From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 12 12:10:47 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 3BF7C37B401 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 12:10:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6764643E58 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 12:10:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jud@myrealbox.com) Received: from jud [12.33.164.6] by myrealbox.com with NetMail ModWeb Module; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:10:42 -0400 Subject: Re: new user woes From: "Jud" To: neo@uclink.berkeley.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, ant@overclockers.at Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:10:42 -0400 X-Mailer: NetMail ModWeb Module X-Sender: jud MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <1026501042.5b99dffcjud@myrealbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 -----Original Message----- From: chris To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:54:58 -0700 Subject: Re: new user woes At 03:22 PM 7/12/2002 +0200, you wrote: >On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 01:41:59AM -0700, chris wrote: > > Hello, two things, > > > > One, I have an extended fat32 partition on the same drive (ide) that > > FreeBSD 4.6 is installed on. I have tried mounting it with 'mount -t= =20 > msdos > > /dev/ad0s5 /mnt', but only to get a 'Device not configured' error. > >Could you post the output of `mount`? I've once had troubles too with >mounting fat32 partitions since the slice-numbering often turns out to be >different from what you might expect. the partition i want to mount isn't listed in mount, but here's the output= =20 anyway: /dev/ad4s1a on / (ufs, local) /dev/ad4s1f on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad4s1g on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad4s1e on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) procfs on /proc (procfs, local) also, fdisk displays the slice i'm having trouble mounting as ad4s2, which i've also tried to mount, but I get an 'Invalid argument' error if I do so. [snip] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Couple of thoughts: 1. Why are you trying to mount ad*0*s5 rather than ad*4*s5 if the fat32 partition is on the same disk as FreeBSD? 2. Don't know exactly why, since the two should be equivalent, but once or twice I've had better luck with the mount_msdos formulation than mount -t msdos. HTH, Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message