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Date:      Mon, 01 Jul 2002 11:44:26 -0400
From:      Tom Limoncelli <tal@lumeta.com>
To:        uwi mAn <uwiman3k@hotmail.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problems mounting fat32 slice
Message-ID:  <3D2078DA.C8230947@lumeta.com>
References:  <F241Wkl1ck7smmeCT7200001e0f@hotmail.com>

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I had this problem myself and a co-worker figured it out.  FreeBSD won't
see a FAT32 partion unless it is a primary partition.

Use Partition Magic or similar software to change the FAT32 partition to be
a primary partion and you should be set.

I consider this to be a bug in FreeBSD.

--tal


uwi mAn wrote:
> 
> # mount -t msdos /dev/ad0s2 /xp
> fixlabel: raw partition size > slice size
> msdos: /dev/ad0s2: Invalid argument
> # dmesg |grep ad0s2
> ad0s2: raw partition size != slice size
> ad0s2: start 2104515, end 19615364, size 17510850
> ad0s2c: start 2104515, end 40082174, size 37977660
> ad0s2: truncating raw partition
> 
> XP on it works very peachy.
> 
> Whats that?

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