From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sun Sep 20 23:52:08 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA1B2A06AD4 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 23:52:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com) Received: from alogt.com (alogt.com [69.36.191.58]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C88061DB6 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 23:52:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=alogt.com; s=default; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date; bh=0RjecXqZTEyrwKeEwEjZOm5septs2eqsFSZULmIaY88=; b=KEmo+ha6pDhPKKIuMLjI35n3vtkWEl5IrgqaSCD7KsAdq6ctx/OWUQ14zvMnXBQVb7MFrTZNjfXhnPshLMbWMQlDdIfaMi3QdlbAF/yqhwXvr9lnut2GZVWM9x+YEc3KHdrqKupTLeekVh25nHwKQtWMbC78oP99Q91ZImENoiM=; Received: from [39.253.16.142] (port=51568 helo=X220.alogt.com) by sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1ZdoOm-000kfl-Om; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 17:52:01 -0600 Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 07:51:54 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky To: Zoran Kolic Cc: "Julian H. Stacey" , 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - alogt.com X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net: authenticated_id: erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 23:52:09 -0000 Hi, On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 16:23:42 +0200 Zoran Kolic 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