can't mount windows partition

[Joshua Lokken]

On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 04:42:38 -0500, Brian Bobowski <bbobowski at cogeco.ca> wrote:
> Rizal Ferdiyan wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> >hello ;
> >my name rizal from indonesia, I have a problem. My partition windows
> >(FAT
> >32) can't mount
> >in freebsd. My partition in /dev/ad0s1 and /dev/ad0s2. I have been try
> >write"mount -t msdosfs /dev/ad0s1(ad0s2) /mnt/win1(ad0s1) and
> >mount_msdosfs /node " but it don't work. Please help me and sorry for my
> >bad english.
> >
> >thank you.
> >
> >
> Please provide the error text and the output of "uname -a" if this
> doesn't work, but...
> 
> Are you certain that it's a FAT32 disk and not an NTFS? Windows XP, for
> instance, can use the NTFS file system(my Home edition does by default).
> 
> That said, there is a problem with your mount syntax. That or I can't
> figure out exactly what you're typing.
> 
> I don't know which of your disk partitions is which. I'm going to give
> examples as though /dev/ad0s1 is the Windows partition and /dev/ad0s2 is
> the FreeBSD slice; in /dev, such a slice would show up with letters
> after the "slice" number to indicate the FreeBSD partition, such as
> /dev/ad0s2a, ad0s2c, ad0s2d... etc. (I believe b is not currently used,
> left open for convention; a is for the / partition; and c is swap.

I believe that a is normally /; b is normally swap; c is normally the
overlay partition (whole disk), and not used.

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Joshua Lokken
Open Source Advocate