From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 2 3:32:40 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 2 03:32:37 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bumper.jellybaby.net (bumper.jellybaby.net [194.159.247.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4320D37B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 03:32:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from simond@localhost) by bumper.jellybaby.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) id LAA62061; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 11:32:34 GMT (envelope-from simond) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 11:32:34 +0000 From: simond@irrelevant.org To: Morten Seeberg Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting fat32 fails Message-ID: <20010102113233.C59722@irrelevant.org> References: <0a5d01c074af$7aa11610$deff58c1@sos> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <0a5d01c074af$7aa11610$deff58c1@sos>; from ml@seeberg.dk on Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:30:56PM +0100 Sender: simond@bumper.jellybaby.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: > > The data for partition 3 is: > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message