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From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>
To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: mount: /dev/da0p1: Invalid argument
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On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:

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> 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.

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Chris Hill               chris@monochrome.org
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