Re: 8.0RC1: Can't mount usb stick

From: Boris Samorodov <bsam_at_ipt.ru> Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:13:15 +0400 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:39:56 UTC

On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 10:25:16 +0200 (CEST) Goran Gajic wrote:

> da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: < USB FLASH DRIVE PMAP> Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device
> da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
> da0: 1968MB (4030464 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 250C)

> # mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt
> mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0: Invalid argument

Take a look at /dev/da0*. MS DOS usually uses partition s1,
so your command should be:
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# mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt
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