From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 29 16:22:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA20198 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:22:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from PigStuy.dyn.ml.org (nyc-ny66-47.ix.netcom.com [209.109.225.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA20190 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:22:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spork@ix.netcom.com) Received: from localhost (spork@localhost) by PigStuy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA03736; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 19:21:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from spork@ix.netcom.com) X-Authentication-Warning: PigStuy.dyn.ml.org: spork owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 19:21:54 -0500 (EST) From: Spike Gronim X-Sender: spork@PigStuy.dyn.ml.org Reply-To: sporkl@ix.netcom.com To: Shan-Min Chao cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FAT32 Support In-Reply-To: <000301be02c3$305e0960$bfb943a4@chao-s.resnet.ucla.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Shan-Min Chao wrote: > Hello all, > You have probably all answered this question a million times, but I > never knew the answer to this: Can FreeBSD read FAT32 partitions? I have a > dual Win98/FreeBSD boot system, and would like to trade files w/ the two > OSes. If FreeBSD doesn't support FAT32, is there any program that allows it > to? Please respond. Thank you. > Yes, FreeBSD suports FAT32 from (I think) 2.2.6 and up. The command to mount a FAT32 partition is "mount_msdos /dev/sd0s1 /C" to mount the first slice of the first SCSI hard drive in a machine on the directury "/C". -Spike Gronim sporkl@ix.netcom.com The majority only rules those who let them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message