Re: can't mount msdos partition

From: Shane Ambler <FreeBSD_at_ShaneWare.Biz>
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2025 23:45:15 UTC 
On 9/2/25 08:29, Bob Proulx wrote:
> 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

actually ext2fs is a linux filesystem, the fusefs-exfat pkg installs
mount.exfat-fuse, so that should be

	mount.exfat-fuse /dev/da0p4 /mnt/dos

or you can use the link named mount.exfat

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