mounting fat32: Invalid argument

according to some newsgroup posts and the freebsd handbook i tried to
mound my FAT32 partition but i keep getting this:

$ su -
# mount -t msdos /dev/ad0s2 /mnt/fat32 msdosfs
/dev/ad0s2: Invalid argument

i am using FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p4 with a custom kernel containing:

options MSDOSFS

what am i doing wrong?

thanks in advance for any help.

max

Max Rockbert wrote:
> according to some newsgroup posts and the freebsd handbook i tried to
> mound my FAT32 partition but i keep getting this:
>
> $ su -
> # mount -t msdos /dev/ad0s2 /mnt/fat32 msdosfs
> /dev/ad0s2: Invalid argument
>
> i am using FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p4 with a custom kernel containing:
>
> options MSDOSFS
>
> what am i doing wrong?

Are you sure you want to mount /dev/ad0s2 instead of /dev/ad0s2a or some
such thing? Also, does ad0s2 exist? Finally, shouldn't mount syntax be:
mount -t msdosfs /dev/ad0s2 /mnt/fat32

Oh, you can probably use mount_msdosfs instead of "mount -t msdosfs" and
save a couple key hits (not that it really matters).

Devon