Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 07:51:54 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> To: Zoran Kolic <zkolic@sbb.rs> Cc: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>, brucegb@austin.rr.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, allbery.b@gmail.com Subject: Re: fat32 question Message-ID: <20150921075154.4c5a0dc0@X220.alogt.com> In-Reply-To: <20150920142342.GA921@faust.sbb.rs> References: <20150920183123.3c10adb789df478bfe0d3716@dec.sakura.ne.jp> <201509201212.t8KCCVw7068917@fire.js.berklix.net> <20150920142342.GA921@faust.sbb.rs>
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Hi, On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 16:23:42 +0200 Zoran Kolic <zkolic@sbb.rs> wrote: > > Zoran, re Brandon's "won't understand it any more." > > Dont despair & discard stick, you can rebuild the MBR: man fdisk > > from memory start with fdisk -i -B /dev/da0 > > First, thanks all for replies! > After a bit of puzzling, I found that the problem was every Transcend > usb stick I have. They are all fine for mundane tasks and newfs_msdos > makes it able to work on freebsd. My music player was picky and has > something to say against. When I inserted old and forgoten Verbatim > drive, without making f32, it presented itself and files were ready > to play. Unbelievable. > Yep, I did fdisk step after I posted the question. No go on Transcend. > Might be hardware incompatibility or else. Btw, I always do just newfs > on back up usb disks and never had any problem, so far, on freebsd. > Once again, thank you for help. > FreeBSD has no problem when the file system is directly on the device. Other operating system have problems with it as they expect partitions. fdisk is a bit outdated. Use gpart for partitioning. Erich
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