Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 21:01:21 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Brian <root@cinch.rt66.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vfat fs in freebsd? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980330210047.25417J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980330214258.1157A-100000@cinch.rt66.com>
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On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Brian wrote: > > > On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Doug White wrote: > > > On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Brian wrote: > > > > > Does anyone know if freebsd has vfat fs support? > > > > Not directly, but vmount can mount them okay and support is coming in 3.0, > > I think. I have a copy of vmount at ftp://gdi.uoregon.edu/pub/vmount*. > > Now will this mount like win95's fs, and be like its fs, and not > msdos's? I've always used vfat support in my linux kernel, and it worked > pretty nicely.. Been working with freebsd now, trying to tweak it for my > home desktop box, and I have a win95 partition.. and thats why I asked > about if fbsd had vfat support, does vmount do this? I haven't tried it specifically, but vmount mounts it as a NFS volume. You should get the long filenames and such just like any other FS. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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