Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 02:27:11 -0500 (EST) From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> To: bsddiy@21cn.com Cc: peabody007@deepspacenine.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vfat Question Message-ID: <200103070727.f277RBH65111@saturn.cs.uml.edu>
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David Xu writes: > AFAIK, FreeBSD does support FAT16, FAT32 partition. you can mount > a partition as msdos type: > mount -t msdos /ad0s1 /mnt > Linux sucks, it separates FAT16 and FAT32 support. > FreeBSD is simpler. Linux does not separate FAT16 and FAT32 support. You may mount either as "vfat". If for some odd reason you _want_ short names, both FAT16 and FAT32 may be mounted as "msdos". Linux lets you disable long filenames on CD-ROMs too, and I think also for NTFS, SMB (Windows network share), and NCP (Novell network share). Proof: compile Linux without "msdos" filesystem support and mount any FAT16 or FAT32 filesystem as "vfat". FreeBSD is simpler though, if you don't consider partitions. >:-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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