Formats Other Than FAT(16)

[Warren Block]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Gerard Seibert wrote:

> I want to format disks that I use in my ZIP drive in either the
> FAT(32) or NTFS systems. Is there anyway to make FreeBSD accomplish
> that task? All it seems to want to do is use the FAT(16) system. I am
> now using version 5.2.

The man page for newfs_msdos shows a -F flag, just like Linux's
mkfs.vfat takes.  What error message do you get?

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA