Can't mount primary msdos slice

Theresa L. Ford bsd at cattail.nu
Thu Jan 1 02:18:53 PST 2004


On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 01:23:07 -0800 (PST)
Olga Zenkova <siro200 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Can't mount primary msdos slice on FreeBSD 5.1. Get:
> "/dev/ad4s2 - invalid argument". The file for the
> device /dev/ad4s2 exists - I see it by "ls". May be I
> need some additional keys in the mount string?
> 
> Thanks,
> Olga

For 4.9-Stable, this works for me.  Maybe it is close for 5.1?

In kernel:
options         MSDOSFS                 #MSDOS Filesystem

Command:
mount_msdos /dev/ad3s8 /mnt

Of course, substitute your device.

- T


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