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Date:      Wed, 7 Mar 2001 11:15:42 +0800
From:      David Xu <bsddiy@21cn.com>
To:        "Ben Compton" <peabody007@deepspacenine.com>
Cc:        "freebsd" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Vfat Question
Message-ID:  <148503847.20010307111542@viasoft.com.cn>
In-Reply-To: <NEBBLIEJKLDOKEJONFEEIEBLCDAA.peabody007@deepspacenine.com>
References:  <NEBBLIEJKLDOKEJONFEEIEBLCDAA.peabody007@deepspacenine.com>

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Hello Ben,

Wednesday, March 07, 2001, 11:00:00 AM, you wrote:

BC> Quick question for you folks....Do you know when/if VFat support will be
BC> included in the kernel?  I'm wanting to dual boot my machine with FreeBSD
BC> and Win98 and would like to be able to access the files on my Win98 drive
BC> and have long file name support.  I know this feature exists in Linux but is
BC> it even in the works for FreeBSD?


BC> Ben Compton
BC> President
BC> Gamma Alpha Tau Chapter PBL
BC> Southwest Virginia Community College

BC> "And in the end on dreams we will depend..."
BC>                                   -Van Halen        

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.

-- 
Best regards,
David Xu



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