Re: USB can't mount msdosfs drive

2013-06-06 Thread Joseph Mays
If you do a ls /dev/da* What does it show. root@warehouse:/root # ls -la /dev/da* crw-r- 1 root operator0, 123 Jun 4 17:08 /dev/da0 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 124 Jun 4 17:08 /dev/da0s1 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 131 Jun 4 17:08 /dev/da1 crw-r- 1 root operator

Re: USB can't mount msdosfs drive

2013-06-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Joseph Mays m...@win.net writes: If you do a ls /dev/da* What does it show. root@warehouse:/root # ls -la /dev/da* crw-r- 1 root operator0, 123 Jun 4 17:08 /dev/da0 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 124 Jun 4 17:08 /dev/da0s1 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 131 Jun 4 17:08

Re: USB can't mount msdosfs drive

2013-06-06 Thread Joseph Mays
Just checking the obvious: you're sure this particular disk is showing up as da2, right? Yes. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

USB can't mount msdosfs drive

2013-06-05 Thread Joseph Mays
Tried several iterations, though it’s clearly a fat32 formatted USB drive. Shown below are the results of fdisk and the mount_msdosfs command. root@warehouse:/root # fdisk /dev/da2 *** Working on device /dev/da2 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=1897

Re: USB can't mount msdosfs drive

2013-06-05 Thread Joseph Mays
features From: Joseph Mays Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 11:55 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: USB can't mount msdosfs drive Tried several iterations, though it’s clearly a fat32 formatted USB drive. Shown below are the results of fdisk and the mount_msdosfs command. root@warehouse

Re: USB can't mount msdosfs drive

2013-06-05 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On 2013-06-05 18:33, Joseph Mays wrote: Joseph Mays: Tried several iterations, though it’s clearly a fat32 formatted USB drive. Shown below are the results of fdisk and the mount_msdosfs command. root@warehouse:/root # fdisk /dev/da2 *** Working on device /dev/da2 *** parameters

Re: USB can't mount msdosfs drive

2013-06-05 Thread Joseph Mays
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Re: USB can't mount msdosfs drive

2013-06-05 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 5 Jun 2013, Joseph Mays wrote: Tried several iterations, though it?s clearly a fat32 formatted USB drive. Shown below are the results of fdisk and the mount_msdosfs command. root@warehouse:/root # fdisk /dev/da2 *** Working on device /dev/da2 *** parameters extracted from

Re: USB can't mount msdosfs drive

2013-06-05 Thread Joseph Mays
Maybe the large option to mount_msdosfs(8)? Also, something is odd about the first partition starting at 8064. What does 'gpart show da2' say? root@warehouse:/backups # gpart show da2 = 63 30481089 da2 MBR (14G) 63 8001 - free - (3.9M) 8064 304730881

Re: USB can't mount msdosfs drive

2013-06-05 Thread Joseph Mays
root@warehouse:/backups # mount_msdosfs -o large /dev/da2s1 /usb2 mount_msdosfs: /dev/da2s1: Invalid argument -Original Message- From: Warren Block Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 2:50 PM To: Joseph Mays Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB can't mount msdosfs drive

Re: USB can't mount msdosfs drive

2013-06-05 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 5 Jun 2013 15:12:19 -0400, Joseph Mays wrote: root@warehouse:/backups # mount_msdosfs -o large /dev/da2s1 /usb2 mount_msdosfs: /dev/da2s1: Invalid argument Just a wild guess, without having tried any reference test on my side, but did you already try to access da2 instead of da2s1?

Re: USB can't mount msdosfs drive

2013-06-05 Thread Joseph Mays
did you already try to access da2 instead of da2s1? Yeah, tried that early on, got the same result. root@warehouse:/backups/postgres-02/info # mount_msdosfs /dev/da2 /usb2 mount_msdosfs: /dev/da2: Invalid argument But just to be fully sure: This is a USB stick / thumb drive, right? Yes.

Re: USB can't mount msdosfs drive

2013-06-05 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 5 Jun 2013 16:12:59 -0400 Joseph Mays articulated: Yes. It's one of several thumb drives that were mounted in the back of some linux machines at remote sites we help a customer with. The client is unsure what was on them, but needs to know. We asked them to gather them up and stick

Re: USB can't mount msdosfs drive

2013-06-05 Thread Bernt Hansson
On 2013-06-05 22:12, Joseph Mays wrote: did you already try to access da2 instead of da2s1? Yeah, tried that early on, got the same result. root@warehouse:/backups/postgres-02/info # mount_msdosfs /dev/da2 /usb2 mount_msdosfs: /dev/da2: Invalid argument But just to be fully sure: This is a