Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 16:46:21 +0300 From: arb-freebsd@iconnect.co.ke To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mount the msdos primary partition? Message-ID: <19980421164621.A6022@iconnect.co.ke> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980417110336.1265Q-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 11:04:28AM -0700 References: <19980417102851.B13418@iconnect.co.ke> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980417110336.1265Q-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 11:04:28AM -0700, Doug White wrote: > > That's odd. I have a fat32 FS on my computer at home (win95B), and I can > > mount it from FreeBSD-2.2.5. It complains about the clustersize, but this > > is documented in the mount_msdos manpage. I mount it read-only to avoid > > corruption, but otherwise, it works just fine. > > Are you **sure** it's fat32? Fat32 isn't supported unless someone snuck > it in without telling me. I stand corrected. The FS on my home computer is FAT16. I looked it up using Control Panel, and it says "32 bit" in the FS type. But then I used fdisk to view the type, and it shows it as FAT16. I must have gotten confused with the "32 bit" in the control panel. -- Anand He who attacks the fundamentals of the American broadcasting industry attacks democracy itself. -- William S. Paley, chairman of CBS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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