Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 01:21:46 +0200 From: Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se> To: Joseph Mays <mays@win.net> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB can't mount msdosfs drive Message-ID: <51AFC80A.3020303@bananmonarki.se> In-Reply-To: <E2FD669544EA4137BB2E80A0AEC4A8AE@Gantry> References: <D16334484B0C4155A21C15070F51738B@Gantry><alpine.BSF.2.00.1306051244360.56946@wonkity.com><3F74C0CB9E7C4CDF9501159278786054@Gantry> <20130605215623.d0986046.freebsd@edvax.de> <E2FD669544EA4137BB2E80A0AEC4A8AE@Gantry>
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On 2013-06-05 22:12, Joseph Mays wrote: >> did you already try to access da2 instead of da2s1? > > Yeah, tried that early on, got the same result. > > root@warehouse:/backups/postgres-02/info # mount_msdosfs /dev/da2 /usb2 > mount_msdosfs: /dev/da2: Invalid argument > >> But just to be fully sure: This is a USB stick / thumb drive, right? > > Yes. It's one of several thumb drives that were mounted in the back of > some linux machines at remote sites we help a customer with. The client > is unsure what was on them, but needs to know. We asked them to gather > them up and stick them into usb ports on a freebsd machine we have > access to and manage at their location (in another state). Most of them > I got mounted as either msdosfs, or ufs, or ntfs, or extfs2, and was > able to get the data off them. This thumb drive is one of two holdouts. If you do a ls /dev/da* What does it show.
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