mount_msdosfs anomaly

[hoe-waa at hawaii.rr.com]

Aloha Again

Okay, I had some time and since I had just installed Slackware, I didn't mind blowing it away.

Using cfdisk from the Slackware CD, I re-partitioned  slices 3 and up. I now have a fat32 3Gig slice in primary partition/slice ad0s3. I then have four 12 Gig slices (5 - 8) set up as linux partitions. Finally slice 9 (ad0s9/hda9) is linux swap.

I still have the same error when trying to "mount_msdosfs /dev/ad0s3 /shared" or "mount -t msdos /dev/ad0s3 /shared"

I know it is seen as a fat32 partition in Win98 because I format it and run scandisk on it and can write to it.

So, I don't think the problem was a primary/logical partition problem. I need to swap data between the OS's and this should be the easiest way.:)

Robert



> > 
> > Aloha
> > I first used a win98 boot disk to set slice 1(partition 1) a 5 
> Gig for 
> > my win98 slice. After installing win98, I used the freebsd 5.2.1 
> CD to 
> > set up the freebsd slice 2 at 20 Gig. 
> 
> OK.  I haven't had time (or a spare machine) to play with 5.xxx 
> yet.

I have a spare frankenputer if you can get to Kona, I'll loan it to you :)
  
> 
> > After installing freebsd I used Slackware 9.1 CD and the cfdisk 
> program 
> > on it to partition the rest of the disk. Slice/partition3 is a 
> primary. 
> > Slice 4 is extended with logical slices/partitions 5 through 10. 
> I 
> > installed Slackware on slice 8 with a linux swap on slice 9 and a 
> 2.7Gig 
> > fat32 on slice 10.
> 
> Well, that (using Slackware and being logical partitions within
> an extended ) explains some things about how you got those slices. 
> 
> I believe FreeBSD is quite limited in its ability to talk to 
> MS extended partitions.
> 
> > 
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> > > > >> 
> > > > >> When I attempt to mount slice 10 with "mount_msdosfs 
> /dev/ad0s10> > > >> /shared" I get the following error:
> > > > >> 
> > > > >> mount_msdosfs: /dev/ad0s10: invalid argument.
> > > > >> 
> > > > >> Slice 10 was formatted in win98 and scan disk was run. I 
> have a
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