Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 08:47:09 -0600 From: "Joseph A. Nagy, Jr" <jnagyjr1978@gmail.com> To: mexas@bristol.ac.uk Cc: kostikbel@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount: /dev/da0p1: Invalid argument Message-ID: <51150FED.1050606@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201302081338.r18DcGa5034982@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <201302081338.r18DcGa5034982@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On 02/08/13 07:38, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > 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 for a new fat32 fs I used: newfs_msdos -F 32 -L travelsize /dev/da0 (FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 over here, for what it's worth) -- Yours in Christ, Joseph A Nagy Jr "Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, But he who hates correction is stupid." -- Proverbs 12:1 Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content CopyFree (F) under the OWL http://copyfree.org/licenses/owl/license.txt
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