From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 21 06:46:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA10165 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 06:46:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (qmailr@siafu.iconnect.co.ke [208.208.120.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA10146 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 13:46:27 GMT (envelope-from arb@iconnect.co.ke) Received: (qmail 24902 invoked by uid 182); 21 Apr 1998 13:46:21 -0000 Message-ID: <19980421164621.A6022@iconnect.co.ke> 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? References: <19980417102851.B13418@iconnect.co.ke> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1 In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 11:04:28AM -0700 X-Mutt-References: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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