FAT32 Partition?

[Lowell Gilbert]

Phusion <phusion2k at gmail.com> writes:

> I'm having problems accessing a shared FAT32 partition in FreeBSD 5.3.
> When I try to mount the partition, it says: bad FAT32 filesystem. I'll
> explain what I'm trying to do, and what I've tried. I have one hard
> drive, and I'm trying to get Windows XP Pro, FreeBSD 5.3, and Fedora
> on it. I want to have one FAT32 partition that is shared between all
> three operating systems. Here's the steps I've followed.
> 
> - Install Windows XP Pro
>   create a primary partition, NTFS
> - Install FreeBSD 5.3
>   create a primary partition, UFS2
> - Install Fedora
>   manually partition with disk druid, create a boot partition, FAT
> partition, and swap drive
> 
>   Here's what the partitions look like to Fedora.
>     hdc1                   ntfs (Primary)
>     hdc2                   bsd (Primary)
>     hdc3     /             ext3 (Primary)
>     hdc4                   Extended
>       hdc5   /share     vfat
>       hdc6                 swap
> 
> When tried this way, the FAT32 partition is created by Fedora. The
> partition can be read + written to in Windows XP, and Fedora. In
> FreeBSD I can't mount it. Can FreeBSD 5.3 read FAT32 partitions on
> extended partitions? When I create the FAT32 partition as a primary
> partition I can read and write to it in FreeBSD fine. Does anyone have
> advice on how I can do this. If so let me know. Thanks.

It should work fine.  What device are you using to mount it from
FreeBSD, and does that device exist in /dev?