Can't mount thumb drive

Martin Paredes mapsware at prodigy.net.mx
Wed Sep 12 04:13:40 UTC 2018


El Sat, 8 Sep 2018 15:17:32 -0400
Steven Friedrich <steven.e.friedrich at gmail.com> escribió:
> When I plug in my thumb drive (A Kingston Data Traveler 1G, FAT),
> 
> but when I try to mount it using:
> mount_msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt
> 
> it squeals Invalid argument.
> 
> So I tried:
> mount_msdosfs /dev/da0a /mnt
> it squeals Invalid argument.
> 
> Both /dev/da0 and /dev/da0a exist.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
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If it's a FAT slice (partition), you should be using

/dev/da0s1


You should verify it's slices

gpart show da0

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Martin Paredes
Hermosillo, Son. Mexico


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