Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 10:57:17 -0700 (PDT) From: twig les <twigles@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Can't mount my fat32 partition Message-ID: <20020920175717.90186.qmail@web10105.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hey all, for some reason I'm having a lot of trouble
mounting a fat 32 partition, even though the book I
have and the web site I found both said that it's a
snap. The man page didn't help and a google search
didn't either so here goes.
I keep getting an invalid argument response when I try
to mount my windoze partition (as root):
L# mount_msdos /dev/ad0s3 /mnt
mount_msdos: /dev/ad0s3: Invalid argument
Here is my hard drive according to fdisk:
Disk name: ad0
FDISK Partition Editor
DISK Geometry: 1467 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors =
23567355 sectors (11507MB)
Offset Size(MB) End Name PType
Desc Subtype Flags
0 0 62 - 6
unused 0
63 2996 6136829 ad0s1 1
NTFS/HPFS/QNX 7
6136830 5498 17398394 ad0s2 3
freebsd 165 C
17398395 3012 23567354 ad0s3 4
extended 15
23567355 5 23579135 - 6
unused 0
And here is my OS:
L# uname -a
FreeBSD L.liza.com 4.6.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD
4.6.2-RELEASE-p2 #0: Mon Sep 16 13:41:26 PDT 2002
root@L.liza.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FW.safe i386
As you can see, fdisk (and partition magic 5.0) thinks
that the fat32 partition is extended, but it is
numbered as 3, when extended partitions are supposed
to start at 5 (so I've read). Well ad0s5 doesn't
exist and ad0s3 is clearly the 3gig fat32 I just
formatted. Please help a poor confused soul.
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