From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Aug 14 9:26:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from cambridge1-smrly2.gtei.net (cambridge1-smrly2.gtei.net [199.94.215.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2D7937BAFC for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 09:26:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from AndrewGould@shannonhealth.org) Received: from istech4.shannonhealth.org (istech4.shannonhealth.org [4.18.79.4]) by cambridge1-smrly2.gtei.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E35FE1E02E for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 16:26:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: by ISTECH4 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 11:34:20 -0500 Message-ID: <206499C84775D3119A000000F879310E011276D8@ISTECH4> From: Andrew Gould To: "'doc@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: MSDOSFS and FAT32 Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 11:34:20 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am new to FreeBSD and, after searching the documentation, have been under the impression that FreeBSD cannot read or write to the FAT32 file system. I was told today, via email from questions@FreeBSD.org, that the MSDOSFS option in the kernel enables FreeBSD to read/write to FAT32. The MSDOSFS option is included in the GENERIC kernel. For people who are considering using FreeBSD, this is very important information. During evaluation of the OS, it is very helpful to have common partitions that are readable by all OS's on the system. If the MSDOSFS kernel option does, in fact, enable FreeBSD to read/write FAT32, would you consider making this very clear in the FAQ? Thank you, Andrew Gould To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message