can't mount msdos fs on freebsd6?

Tino Boss tino.boss.1 at student.unibe.ch
Tue Dec 13 10:49:09 PST 2005


Jeff D. Hamann wrote:

> mothra# mount -t msdos /dev/ad0s2 /data
> mount_msdosfs: /dev/ad0s2: Invalid argument

I remember having had a similar problem and it was just a that it was an 
extended partition and somehow it was not displayed with the correct 
number in some utility. If that's your case you might just need another 
device-name. I think numbering for extended partitions starts at 5 (eg. 
ad0s5).

regards
Tino

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