Re: disklabel generating wrong fstype

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

mlh%goathill.org@localhost (MLH) writes:

>$ mount -v -t msdos /dev/sd0e /mnt
>exec: mount_msdos /dev/sd0e /mnt
>mount_msdos: /dev/sd0e on /mnt: Invalid argument

>This was the original issue with the card. Not sure what the invalid
>argument still is.

The data doesn't suddenly become a FAT filesystem when you tag the
partition as MSDOS. Since the original type (from MBR) was NTFS it
is probably an NTFS filesystem.

But you can now format sd0e as FAT filesytem with newfs_msdos (deletes
all data) and then mount it.

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