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Date:      Mon, 25 Mar 2019 15:21:28 +0100
From:      Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>
To:        redlamb19@gmail.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unable to mount FAT16 partition (Invalid Argument)
Message-ID:  <93bd85ea-23ee-4932-34ed-45529c03022c@netfence.it>
In-Reply-To: <3fbf4d30-e286-fe43-3476-d2f4626b2407@gmail.com>
References:  <3fbf4d30-e286-fe43-3476-d2f4626b2407@gmail.com>

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On 3/25/19 2:42 AM, Peter Erickson wrote:
> I'm hoping to get some assistance mounting a FAT (FAT16?) partition 
> created by the VMware ESXi installer (version 6.7.0). Every attempt to 
> mount it on 11.2-RELEASE-p4, results in an "Invalid argument" error, 
> without much to indicate what is wrong or how to resolve it. Any advice 
> or direction would be much appreciated.

I've had this problem in the past and solved using "-o large".
According to the man page this shouldn't be your case (and I don't 
remember how big a partition I was trying to mount), but, for the price, 
it's worth trying :)

HTH.

  bye
	av.



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