From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 6 23:27:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from saturn.cs.uml.edu (saturn.cs.uml.edu [129.63.8.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE32137B719 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 23:27:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from acahalan@saturn.cs.uml.edu) Received: (from acahalan@localhost) by saturn.cs.uml.edu (8.11.0/8.11.2) id f277RBH65111; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 02:27:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 02:27:11 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200103070727.f277RBH65111@saturn.cs.uml.edu> From: "Albert D. Cahalan" To: bsddiy@21cn.com Cc: peabody007@deepspacenine.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vfat Question Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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