usb stick problem

[Zoran Kolic]

> From: Alson van der Meulen <alson+ml at alm.flutnet.org>                         
> This sounds like the documented behavior if the drive was empty or had        
> no long filenames when you mounted it. From mount_msdosfs(8):                 
> "If neither -s nor -l are given, mount_msdosfs searches the root              
> directory of the file system to be mounted for any existing                   
> Win'95 long filenames.  If no such entries are found, but short               
> DOS filenames are found, -s is the default.  Otherwise -l is                  
> assumed."                                                                     
> -o longnames should do the trick.                                             
                                                                                
Thank you, Alson! Works!                                                        
I forgot how to handle ms things. Even worse, I contacted                       
shop technician and got an information that it was intended                     
to reformat as the very first. He said explicitely it was                       
fat16 formatted. What would you do in this situation? Go as                     
it is now or do something like (I've read manual finaly):                       
  newfs_msdos -F 32 /dev/da0                                                    
Best regards                                                                    
                                                                                
                                     Zoran