Re: Problems mounting Fat32

spacedrac@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Bill,

Thanks for replying. I booted into FreeBSD and fdisked the 300GB into:

32G Fat32
100G NTFS
rest UFS (since I intend on using FreeBSD primarily)

I've tried mounting the three partitions with no luck. Same error for
the FAT32 partition as earlier, and it says it can't read the
filesystem on the UFS. I think I need to bsdlabel it. The NTFS I
haven't tried yet, since I don't know how to mount it. Nonetheless it
still refuses to mount the FAT32, which is my outstanding problem right
now.

Any more suggestions?

Thanks,

- Brien

mount_ntfs /dev/[drive] /wherever
Check: Drive device name (ad0s1) etc.

* Assume you've formatted the FAT32, NTFS partitions? (Preferebly from Windows) *

Can you see/ access the NTFS and FAT32 from Windows. If not then little point trying to mount them from FreeBSD etc!

Perhaps re-do the FAT and NTFS partitioning from Windows (remainder as free space), Format the partitions, Check they work under Windows, Try mount the NTFS and FAT32 under FreeBSD then make the UFS partition from FreeBSD.

Assume your system BIOS correctly supports 300Gb drive?
What versions of Windows, FreeBSD?

Here:
localhost/root# mount
/dev/ad0s2a on / (ufs, local)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
/dev/ad0s2e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/ad0s2f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/ad0s2d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/ad0s5 on /data (msdosfs, local)
/dev/ad0s1 on /win (ntfs, local, read-only)
/dev/ad0s3 on /vista (ntfs, local, read-only)


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