Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:18:00 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: msdosfs illegal argument Message-ID: <20040209111631.E48001@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <4023997C.9030501@veldy.net> References: <20040206142723.22916104.yashite@gmx.net> <4023997C.9030501@veldy.net>
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On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > I am seeing this as well with a regular FAT32 partition (/dev/ad1s1). I > get: > > cascade# mount -t msdos /dev/ad1s1 /mnt/storage > msdosfs: /dev/ad1s1: Invalid argument I tried this at home and got this error when I forgot the other partition on the system is NTFS. I got a kernel message, "Not a valid FAT32 filesystem," however. Try doing this: dd if=/dev/ad1s1 of=temp bs=512 count=1 od -bc temp | head The first few bytes of the filesystem should be 'aa55' (or 55aa, I forget), and not 'NTFS'. :-) -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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