How To create msdosfs on HD?

Fbsd1 fbsd1 at a1poweruser.com
Fri Apr 30 03:31:05 UTC 2010


Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 6:36 AM, Rod Person <rodperson at rodperson.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:29:35 -0300, Fbsd1 <fbsd1 at 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?
>>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512k count=10
> fdisk -i /dev/da0
> newfs_msdos -F32 /dev/da0s1
> 

Thank you very much.
Thats the answer I was hoping for.


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