mounting drives from a terminal

Hi

I have an external firewire drive thats fat32, i want to mount it manualy from the command line as OSX just comes up and says it wants ti initilize the disk and format it to HFS, i tried what you do in linux but that doesnt seem to be working, command is as follows:

mount -t vfat /dev/disk3s1 /mnt/firewiredrive


or am i getting the disk wrong ?

ne what that gives me the feed back

mount: exec /usr/sbin/mount_fat32 for /mnt/firewiredrive: no such file or directory

???

try this:
mount /dev/disk3s1 /mnt/firewiredrive -t fat32

i can't remember if it's fat32 or msdos.
ya could also try: man mount

ben

Thanks for your reply, i tried that and it dodnt work

I have since figured it out,

you have to format the drive as msdos from in osx that way osx and windows and linux can wtire to it no problems

thanks

redfox said:

try this:
mount /dev/disk3s1 /mnt/firewiredrive -t fat32

i can't remember if it's fat32 or msdos.
ya could also try: man mount

ben

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