From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 6 19:10:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.viasoft.com.cn (unknown [61.153.1.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EDF037B718 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 19:10:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsddiy@21cn.com) Received: from William ([192.168.1.98]) by mail.viasoft.com.cn (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA13082; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 11:06:24 +0800 Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 11:15:42 +0800 From: David Xu X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.48f) Personal Reply-To: David Xu Organization: Viasoft X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <148503847.20010307111542@viasoft.com.cn> To: "Ben Compton" Cc: "freebsd" Subject: Re: Vfat Question In-reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message