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[173.165.231.73]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id v10sm6722185iom.45.2019.03.25.09.25.51 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 25 Mar 2019 09:25:52 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Unable to mount FAT16 partition (Invalid Argument) To: Andrea Venturoli Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3fbf4d30-e286-fe43-3476-d2f4626b2407@gmail.com> <93bd85ea-23ee-4932-34ed-45529c03022c@netfence.it> From: Peter Erickson Message-ID: <3a981d25-529c-9df4-ef76-c2017d3b41f5@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 11:25:51 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <93bd85ea-23ee-4932-34ed-45529c03022c@netfence.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 55FD173CE4 X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=gmail.com header.s=20161025 header.b=Mp2y4LKV; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gmail.com; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of redlamb19@gmail.com designates 2607:f8b0:4864:20::d43 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=redlamb19@gmail.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.55 / 15.00]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip6:2607:f8b0:4000::/36]; FREEMAIL_FROM(0.00)[gmail.com]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[gmail.com:+]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[gmail.com,none]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[cached: alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.99)[-0.986,0]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; FREEMAIL_ENVFROM(0.00)[gmail.com]; ASN(0.00)[asn:15169, ipnet:2607:f8b0::/32, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; DWL_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[gmail.com.dwl.dnswl.org : 127.0.5.0]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[gmail.com:s=20161025]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[3.4.d.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.2.0.0.4.6.8.4.0.b.8.f.7.0.6.2.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.5.0]; IP_SCORE(-0.55)[ip: (2.33), ipnet: 2607:f8b0::/32(-2.86), asn: 15169(-2.14), country: US(-0.07)] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 16:25:56 -0000 While the partition is only 250M, anything is worth a shot at this point. Unfortunately, that didn't work either - same result. I'm glad that I'm not the only one that's stumped. # mount -t msdosfs -o ro,large /dev/ada1p5 /mnt mount_msdosfs: /dev/ada1p5: Invalid argument On 3/25/19 9:21 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"