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From: h5h1@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Markus Meister)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Mounting DOS filesystem (HOW?)
Date: 5 Sep 1994 11:00:54 -0700
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Ok, I finally got my SCSI hard drive purring on /usr, but now I want to be
able to access my MSDOS partitions from FreeBSD. Below is the last part of
a 'disklabel wd1'. That drive contains only the root and a swap partition of
my FreeBSD, most of it is MSDOS. Partition 'e' used to be the same as
it is now, except of type 4.2BSD. First I had the MSDOS partition on 'f',
but since that didn't work, I tried it like this. But STILL, a 
'mount -t pcfs /dev/wd1e /mnt' gives me "Invalid argument".
Could someone tell me what I have fouled up, and also if the original 'e'
partition (the BSD one) is necessary (it doesn't SEEM to be). Oh, and I
did read the pcfs man page. sigh.

here's the disklabel:

5 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  a:    30360      660    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16 	# (Cyl.    1 - 46)
  b:    68640    31020      swap                    	# (Cyl.   47 - 150)
  c:   665940      660    unused        0     0       	# (Cyl.    1 - 1009)
  d:   666600        0    unused        0     0       	# (Cyl.    0 - 1009)
  e:   566940    99660     MSDOS                    	# (Cyl.  151 - 1009)