From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 19 16:54:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E99C16A4CE for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:54:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [65.173.111.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7672143D3F for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:54:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0K0sM1m084699; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:54:22 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) with ESMTP id i0K0sMTR084696; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:54:22 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:54:22 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Gerard Seibert In-Reply-To: <20040119181529.0A5B.GERARD-SEIBERT@rcn.com> Message-ID: <20040119175253.R84590@wonkity.com> References: <20040119181529.0A5B.GERARD-SEIBERT@rcn.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Formats Other Than FAT(16) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 00:54:24 -0000 On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Gerard Seibert wrote: > I want to format disks that I use in my ZIP drive in either the > FAT(32) or NTFS systems. Is there anyway to make FreeBSD accomplish > that task? All it seems to want to do is use the FAT(16) system. I am > now using version 5.2. The man page for newfs_msdos shows a -F flag, just like Linux's mkfs.vfat takes. What error message do you get? -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA