From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 8 14:47:20 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0BB2DAA; Fri, 8 Feb 2013 14:47:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jnagyjr1978@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gh0-f169.google.com (mail-gh0-f169.google.com [209.85.160.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C7189DB; Fri, 8 Feb 2013 14:47:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-gh0-f169.google.com with SMTP id r18so881834ghr.28 for ; Fri, 08 Feb 2013 06:47:14 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=V5dkVkBovqIV/f2HLG4Lk+su79S3U/oHoi1R49cVo7M=; b=zn99cHVYxsGCDiY7T8iN4PMlVTYsozJd0dQCyKZGuTtReI7deXMgxf+grWYeBgNCBs U9LfRGTX6fG0VKq7BdKIJa89MGVcnW03xFCKNu/YXd6atCpjGemv9ooVQMg9KaFSuUz3 Pk5NJheLu/RBB5IDlnheVSWr0NdRPUa7fWO8vY+wNxp/6UpUHyvYy9tpvjVWpA3kmTyv km9weCXO0w50H/Lbz1RIcvGfLT+D5OHnJZ7KAdEpBJSUSY04xhUfzoyin+qTapF+IUwZ jvnM8uB264si+xsOTjveor4IH6sjL6ODw5JLcMjshhD+y2I32/Fwx1EU8j84h/R6rDAb qABQ== X-Received: by 10.236.124.36 with SMTP id w24mr6288595yhh.19.1360334834139; Fri, 08 Feb 2013 06:47:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.33] (vid-196.dhcp.grp10.tnmmrl.infoave.net. [204.116.254.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h38sm28640647ani.7.2013.02.08.06.47.11 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 08 Feb 2013 06:47:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <51150FED.1050606@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 08:47:09 -0600 From: "Joseph A. Nagy, Jr" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130206 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mexas@bristol.ac.uk Subject: Re: mount: /dev/da0p1: Invalid argument References: <201302081338.r18DcGa5034982@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <201302081338.r18DcGa5034982@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: chris@monochrome.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:47:20 -0000 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