Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:12:15 +0200 From: Antonio Vieiro <antonio@antonioshome.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem mounting USB drive Message-ID: <4C617A5F.1010909@antonioshome.net> In-Reply-To: <4C61710C.7000602@zzz.ee> References: <4C61710C.7000602@zzz.ee>
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On 10/08/2010 17:32, Ott Köstner wrote:
> [...]
>
> In the /var/log/messages the following message appears:
>
> Aug 10 18:27:40 ott kernel: mountmsdosfs(): bad FAT32 filesystem
>
> The drive is OK and works fine with Windows. Also, USB flash thumb
> drives work fine, when used in the same manner with my FreeBSD.
> System version is 8.0-STABLE, but this is probably irrelevant here.
>
The fact that the drive is working on Windows does not mean it's FAT32
formatted. It may as well be NTFS formatted ("man mount_ntfs").
Doublecheck you're running a FAT32 system: FreeBSD is saying you're not.
Cheers,
Antonio
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