error mounting USB disk: Invalid argument

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Sat May 31 11:29:37 UTC 2008


>> Then:
>>
>> # mount /dev/da0s1c /media/disk6
>> mount: /dev/da0s1c : Invalid argument

mount_msdosfs ?

>
> This is caused by the nmount system call returning EINVAL. Quoting from
> mount(2):
>
> [EINVAL]     The super block for the file system had a bad magic
>     	     number or an out of range block size.
>
> After partitioning and labeling the disk, did you make filesystems on
> the partitions with newfs?
>
> Roland
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