Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:15:42 -0500 From: Bobby Walker <bobbyjwalker@live.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How To create msdosfs on HD? Message-ID: <BLU0-SMTP689D95D95281A57D9D60CBBB010@phx.gbl> In-Reply-To: <4BD99400.8050905@a1poweruser.com> References: <4BD97BAF.8080002@a1poweruser.com> <op.vbxbzwnzwdsea2@ccbh-194.acct.upmchs.net> <4BD99400.8050905@a1poweruser.com>
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Sent from my iPhone On Apr 29, 2010, at 9:13 AM, Fbsd1 <fbsd1@a1poweruser.com> wrote: > Rod Person wrote: >> On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:29:35 -0300, Fbsd1 <fbsd1@a1poweruser.com> >> wrote: >>> I know mount_msdosfs command is used to mount a HD formated with >>> fat, but I could not find a FBSD command to create a msdos file >>> system on a hard drive. Native dos fdisk/format is no good because >>> it's not USB aware. Is there any FBSD command or port I can use to >>> reformat the UFS hard drive with msdosfs? >>> _______________________________________________ >> Why can't you format it in XP since you connected it to XP? > Because like I say in the first part of post you snipped out that xp > does not assign a drive letter to it. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > " > In XP the drive should be visible in the disk manager via administration tools. It'll assign a drive letter after you you do a fat32 or ntfs format on either a single partition or the entire drive.
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