From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Mar 25 14:21:48 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 014BB15632BC for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2019 14:21:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from soth.netfence.it (net-2-44-121-52.cust.vodafonedsl.it [2.44.121.52]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mailserver.netfence.it", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DB5B26E661 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2019 14:21:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from alamar.ventu (alamar.local.netfence.it [10.1.2.18]) (authenticated bits=0) by soth.netfence.it (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id x2PELSdc081489 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 25 Mar 2019 15:21:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) X-Authentication-Warning: soth.netfence.it: Host alamar.local.netfence.it [10.1.2.18] claimed to be alamar.ventu Subject: Re: Unable to mount FAT16 partition (Invalid Argument) To: redlamb19@gmail.com References: <3fbf4d30-e286-fe43-3476-d2f4626b2407@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Andrea Venturoli Message-ID: <93bd85ea-23ee-4932-34ed-45529c03022c@netfence.it> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 15:21:28 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3fbf4d30-e286-fe43-3476-d2f4626b2407@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: DB5B26E661 X-Spamd-Bar: ++ Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [2.35 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.43)[0.430,0]; IP_SCORE(0.12)[ip: (0.41), ipnet: 2.44.0.0/16(0.20), asn: 30722(-0.05), country: IT(0.05)]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; HAS_XAW(0.00)[]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[netfence.it]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.76)[0.765,0]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[mx.netfence.it,mx.netfence.it,mx.netfence.it,mx.netfence.it,mx.netfence.it,mx.netfence.it,mx.netfence.it,mx.netfence.it]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(0.14)[0.141,0]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; FREEMAIL_TO(0.00)[gmail.com]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:30722, ipnet:2.44.0.0/16, country:IT]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 14:21:48 -0000 On 3/25/19 2:42 AM, Peter Erickson wrote: > I'm hoping to get some assistance mounting a FAT (FAT16?) partition > created by the VMware ESXi installer (version 6.7.0). Every attempt to > mount it on 11.2-RELEASE-p4, results in an "Invalid argument" error, > without much to indicate what is wrong or how to resolve it. Any advice > or direction would be much appreciated. I've had this problem in the past and solved using "-o large". According to the man page this shouldn't be your case (and I don't remember how big a partition I was trying to mount), but, for the price, it's worth trying :) HTH. bye av.