Re: can't mount msdos partition

Reply: Shane Ambler : "Re: can't mount msdos partition"
In reply to: hlyg : "can't mount msdos partition"
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From: Bob Proulx <bob_at_proulx.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2025 21:59:05 UTC

hlyg wrote:
> both 13.4 and 14.1 fail to mount it though linux can mount it as vfat
> partition
...
> root@bsd:~ # mount_msdosfs /dev/da0p4 /mnt/dos/
> mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0p4: Invalid argument

It might be an exfat type then.  Try it?

To work with exFAT file systems install these packages.  Everything
works through being a fuse user mounted file system.

    exfat-utils-1.4.0   Utilities to create, check, label and dump exFAT filesystem
    fusefs-exfat-1.4.0  Full-featured exFAT FS implementation as a FUSE module

    pkg install exfat-utils fusefs-exfat

Then:

    mount -v -t ext2fs /dev/da0p4 /mnt/dos

I would also peek to see what the magic numbers of it say.

    file -s /dev/da0
    file -s /dev/da0p4

Bob