msdosfs illegal argument

[Thomas T. Veldhouse]

YaShiTe wrote:
> I tryed to mount this file system it is an empty filesystem in msdos formated by a mambox machine. I had formated and compresed to reduce the size of the partition.
> 
> mount returns the following message:
> 
> #mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt
> msdosfs: Illegal argument
> 
> #uname -a
> FreeBSD Olea.Bosc 5.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE #6: Tue Jan 13 00:02:07 CET 2004     root at Olea.Bosc:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/OLEA  i386
> 
> But the current happend the same.
> 
> Linux 2.6 can mount it, i don't try with 2.4 or mswin.
> 
> the attrachment is:
> dd if=/dev/da0s1 of=msdos.dump; bzip2 -z9 msdos.dump
> 
> If anybody can mount it (don't worry if it is empty), tell me please! :)
> 
> Thanks. bye!
> 

I am seeing this as well with a regular FAT32 partition (/dev/ad1s1).  I 
get:

cascade# mount -t msdos /dev/ad1s1 /mnt/storage
msdosfs: /dev/ad1s1: Invalid argument

/dev/ad1s1 is a valid drive (FreeBSD is installed on ad1s2).

This problem occurs using current cvsup'd yesterday.

FreeBSD cascade.veldy.net 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #0: Thu Feb  5 
12:13:23 CST 2004 
veldy at cascade.veldy.net:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/CASCADE  i386

Tom Veldhouse
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