Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 11:25:51 -0500 From: Peter Erickson <redlamb19@gmail.com> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to mount FAT16 partition (Invalid Argument) Message-ID: <3a981d25-529c-9df4-ef76-c2017d3b41f5@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <93bd85ea-23ee-4932-34ed-45529c03022c@netfence.it> References: <3fbf4d30-e286-fe43-3476-d2f4626b2407@gmail.com> <93bd85ea-23ee-4932-34ed-45529c03022c@netfence.it>
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While the partition is only 250M, anything is worth a shot at this point. Unfortunately, that didn't work either - same result. I'm glad that I'm not the only one that's stumped. # mount -t msdosfs -o ro,large /dev/ada1p5 /mnt mount_msdosfs: /dev/ada1p5: Invalid argument On 3/25/19 9:21 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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