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Date:      Tue, 2 Jan 2001 11:32:34 +0000
From:      simond@irrelevant.org
To:        Morten Seeberg <ml@seeberg.dk>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mounting fat32 fails
Message-ID:  <20010102113233.C59722@irrelevant.org>
In-Reply-To: <0a5d01c074af$7aa11610$deff58c1@sos>; from ml@seeberg.dk on Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:30:56PM %2B0100
References:  <0a5d01c074af$7aa11610$deff58c1@sos>

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On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:30:56PM +0100, Morten Seeberg wrote:
> Hi, I have a disk with a fat32 partition, to which on of my friends running
> Windows 2000 moveds some data onto.
> 
> Apparently he made the partition as an extended partition, is this a
> problem, because I cant mount it:
> 
> freebsd-rulez# mount_msdos /dev/ad0s1c /data
> mount_msdos: /dev/ad0s1c: Invalid argument
> 
> Im not quite sure which device to use, but I also tried /ad0s1[acdef]
> 
> fdisk:
> ******* Working on device /dev/ad0 *******
> parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
> cylinders=7473 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=7473 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 15,(Extended DOS, LBA)
>     start 16065, size 120037680 (58612 Meg), flag 0
>         beg: cyl 1/ sector 1/ head 0;
>         end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254
> The data for partition 2 is:
> <UNUSED>
> The data for partition 3 is:
> <UNUSED>
> The data for partition 4 is:
> 
> disklabel:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>   c: 120060864        0    unused        0     0        # (Cyl.    0 -
> 7473*)
> 
> Anyone?

Usually if it's on an extended partition you should use ad0s5 (works on mine
anyway :)

-- 
Simon Dick					simond@irrelevant.org


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