How To create msdosfs on HD?

Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com
Thu Apr 29 12:41:27 UTC 2010


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

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Adam Vande More


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