Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 11:42:21 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Colin Brace <cb@lim.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: error mounting USB disk: Invalid argument Message-ID: <20080531094221.GA81037@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <79defaf7e7f012e2cd5c6381d84dccb9@localhost> References: <25515aa06ecb67b43d2a517bcceed88f@localhost> <20080531072955.GA76694@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <79defaf7e7f012e2cd5c6381d84dccb9@localhost>
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On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 10:27:50AM +0200, Colin Brace wrote:
>=20
> On Sat, 31 May 2008 09:29:55 +0200, Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>=20
> > Can you show us what is shown in the dmesg output when you plug this
> > drive in, which devices are then created and the exact command that you
> > used to mount it?
>=20
> dmesg:
>=20
> [...]
> umass0: on uhub1
> da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device=20
> da0: 1.000MB/s transfers
> da0: 194481MB (398297088 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 24792C)
>=20
> These nodes are created:
>=20
> # ls -1 /dev/da*
> /dev/da0
> /dev/da0s1
> /dev/da0s1c
>=20
> Then:
>=20
> # mount /dev/da0s1c /media/disk6
> mount: /dev/da0s1c : Invalid argument
This is caused by the nmount system call returning EINVAL. Quoting from
mount(2):=20
[EINVAL] The super block for the file system had a bad magic
number or an out of range block size.
After partitioning and labeling the disk, did you make filesystems on
the partitions with newfs?
Roland
--=20
R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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