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Date:      Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:54:22 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Gerard Seibert <gerard-seibert@rcn.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Formats Other Than FAT(16)
Message-ID:  <20040119175253.R84590@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040119181529.0A5B.GERARD-SEIBERT@rcn.com>
References:  <20040119181529.0A5B.GERARD-SEIBERT@rcn.com>

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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



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