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From: Martin Paredes <mapsware@prodigy.net.mx>
To: Steven Friedrich <steven.e.friedrich@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Can't mount thumb drive
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El Sat, 8 Sep 2018 15:17:32 -0400
Steven Friedrich <steven.e.friedrich@gmail.com> escribi=F3:
> When I plug in my thumb drive (A Kingston Data Traveler 1G, FAT),
>=20
> but when I try to mount it using:
> mount_msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt
>=20
> it squeals Invalid argument.
>=20
> So I tried:
> mount_msdosfs /dev/da0a /mnt
> it squeals Invalid argument.
>=20
> Both /dev/da0 and /dev/da0a exist.
>=20
> What am I doing wrong?
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If it's a FAT slice (partition), you should be using

/dev/da0s1


You should verify it's slices

gpart show da0

--=20
Martin Paredes
Hermosillo, Son. Mexico