Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 14:51:43 GMT From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: jnagyjr1978@gmail.com, 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: <201302081451.r18EphXa035395@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <51150FED.1050606@gmail.com>
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From jnagyjr1978@gmail.com Fri Feb 8 14:47:22 2013 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) got it, thanks. Seems it works on sparc64 too. Thanks Anton
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