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From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
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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