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From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
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	From chris@monochrome.org Fri Feb  8 13:27:48 2013

	On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:

	  [ snip ]

	> So what is the advice for transferring data
	> via USB in such cases? Any other gpart partition
	> I could use?

	I've always used FAT32 for thumb drives and the like. I don't know if 
	the SPARC would be able to use it, but FAT32 seems like it's most likely 
	to be usable by the largest number of different platforms.

But how do I create FAT32 partitions on FreeBSD?
The gpart doesn't seem to support it.

Anton