From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Sep 20 15:57:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from exegrnnts001.seattleu.edu (exegrnnts001.seattleu.edu [206.81.198.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C94915340 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 15:55:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hodeleri@seattleu.edu) Received: from seattleu.edu (172.17.42.122 [172.17.42.122]) by exegrnnts001.seattleu.edu with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id T11MVT30; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 15:53:04 -0700 Message-ID: <37E6BBAC.CABB9880@seattleu.edu> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 15:56:44 -0700 From: Eric Hodel Organization: Dis X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bigio@comune.jesi.ancona.it Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fat 16 and 8.3 file format References: <99092009424800.00143@plutone> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Giovanni wrote: > > I' ve got a disk formatted in fat16 > (it' s a 420 Mb hd) and it recognizes > the files only if they are stored in 8.3 > format (like old msdos). First, read the mount_msdos(8) man page. Under the -l section it will tell you what you need to do. If you can't figure it out, give me a mail off the list. -- Eric Hodel - hodeleri@seattleu.edu | Customers will come to our Aspiring programmer & FPS minor demi-god. | 'home page' in unbelievable ------------------------------------------/ numbers and find out every- thing we want them to know. --Bill Gates To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message