Unable to mount FAT16 partition (Invalid Argument)

[Peter Erickson]

While the partition is only 250M, anything is worth a shot at this 
point. Unfortunately, that didn't work either - same result. I'm glad 
that I'm not the only one that's stumped.

# mount -t msdosfs -o ro,large /dev/ada1p5 /mnt
mount_msdosfs: /dev/ada1p5: Invalid argument

On 3/25/19 9:21 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> On 3/25/19 2:42 AM, Peter Erickson wrote:
>> I'm hoping to get some assistance mounting a FAT (FAT16?) partition 
>> created by the VMware ESXi installer (version 6.7.0). Every attempt to 
>> mount it on 11.2-RELEASE-p4, results in an "Invalid argument" error, 
>> without much to indicate what is wrong or how to resolve it. Any 
>> advice or direction would be much appreciated.
> 
> I've had this problem in the past and solved using "-o large".
> According to the man page this shouldn't be your case (and I don't 
> remember how big a partition I was trying to mount), but, for the price, 
> it's worth trying :)
> 
> HTH.
> 
>   bye
>      av.
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