fat32 question

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 16:23:42 +0200
Zoran Kolic <zkolic at sbb.rs> wrote:

> > Zoran, re Brandon's "won't understand it any more."
> > Dont despair & discard stick, you can rebuild the MBR: man fdisk
> > from memory start with fdisk -i -B /dev/da0 
> 
> First, thanks all for replies!
> After a bit of puzzling, I found that the problem was every Transcend
> usb stick I have. They are all fine for mundane tasks and newfs_msdos
> makes it able to work on freebsd. My music player was picky and has
> something to say against. When I inserted old and forgoten Verbatim
> drive, without making f32, it presented itself and files were ready
> to play. Unbelievable.
> Yep, I did fdisk step after I posted the question. No go on Transcend.
> Might be hardware incompatibility or else. Btw, I always do just newfs
> on back up usb disks and never had any problem, so far, on freebsd.
> Once again, thank you for help.
> 
FreeBSD has no problem when the file system is directly on the device.
Other operating system have problems with it as they expect partitions.

fdisk is a bit outdated. Use gpart for partitioning.

Erich