NAME
msdosfs —
MS-DOS file system
SYNOPSIS
options MSDOSFS
DESCRIPTION
Themsdosfs driver will permit the
FreeBSD kernel to read and write MS-DOS based file
systems.
The most common usage follows:
mount -t msdosfs /dev/ada0sN
/mntwhere N is the partition number and
/mnt is a mount point. Some users tend to create a
/dos directory for msdosfs
mount points. This helps to keep better track of the file system, and make
it more easily accessible.
It is possible to define an entry in /etc/fstab that looks similar to:
/dev/ada0sN /dos msdosfs rw 0 0
This will mount an MS-DOS based partition at the /dos mount point during system boot. Using /mnt as a permanent mount point is not advised as its intention has always been to be a temporary mount point for floppy and ZIP disks. See hier(7) for more information on FreeBSD directory layout.
EXAMPLES
Determine which FAT file system version (e.g, FAT16, FAT32) is a partition formatted with:
file -s /dev/da0s1
gpart(8) may also be used to extract this information.
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>.