From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 22 16:20: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1731037B5B6; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 16:20:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA05611; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 16:19:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) From: John Baldwin Message-Id: <200007222319.QAA05611@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: mount_msdos and /dev/vn devices In-Reply-To: <20000722224828.S64132@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> from Ben Smithurst at "Jul 22, 2000 10:48:28 pm" To: Ben Smithurst Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 16:19:42 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ben Smithurst wrote: > Any ideas why this doesn't work: > > root@platinum:~# mount_msdos -o ro /dev/vn0s1 /mnt2 > mount_msdos: /dev/vn0s1: Invalid argument > > fdisk shows the slices correctly: Did you use the '-s labels' option to vnconfig to turn on disklabels when you vnconfig'd it? If not, try that. However, I think that the vn device does not support slices, as I've had difficulty with it in the past. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message