Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 10:48:16 -0600 From: JD <jd1008@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to mount FAT16 partition (Invalid Argument) Message-ID: <5C990650.6030907@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3a981d25-529c-9df4-ef76-c2017d3b41f5@gmail.com> References: <3fbf4d30-e286-fe43-3476-d2f4626b2407@gmail.com> <93bd85ea-23ee-4932-34ed-45529c03022c@netfence.it> <3a981d25-529c-9df4-ef76-c2017d3b41f5@gmail.com>
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On 03/25/2019 10:25 AM, Peter Erickson wrote: > 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 Assuming the device you entered (ada1p5) is the device in question, have you tried the option -o fat instead of msdosfs ? Also, again assuming the device name is as you entered, have you tried dd if=/dev/ada1p5 of=/dev/null bs=1M count=10 and see what error mesage(s) you get.
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