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From: "Antony M Rasat" <anton@kaltengpos.com>
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Subject: Re: making a vfat file system?
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Try first "man newfs_msdos".  
On your situation, you should do just fine with: 
 
"newfs_msdos -F 32 <device>" 
  
Regards,  
  
Anthony M. Rasat  
PT. Kalteng Pos Press  
Palangkaraya - Indonesia.-  
  
  
>From :"Andrew Spott" <andrew.spott@gmail.com>  
>To   :freebsd-questions@freebsd.org  
>Date :Today 10:55:26  
>     
>I'd like to make a vfat filesystem out of a external hdd I just  
>bought.  However, I can't seem to figure out how to do it.  
>  
>I odn't know what port to install to get the mkfs.vfat program.  
>  
>any ideas?  
>  
>-Andrew