svn commit: r338958 - head/share/man/man5
Mateusz Piotrowski
0mp at FreeBSD.org
Thu Sep 27 12:08:54 UTC 2018
Author: 0mp (ports committer)
Date: Thu Sep 27 12:08:53 2018
New Revision: 338958
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/338958
Log:
msdosfs(5): Explain how to determine version of the FAT file system.
While here, remove deprecated Tn macros.
Reviewed by: bcr
Approved by: re (gjb), krion (mentor)
Sponsored by: Bally Wulff Games & Entertainment GmbH
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17237
Modified:
head/share/man/man5/msdosfs.5
Modified: head/share/man/man5/msdosfs.5
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man5/msdosfs.5 Thu Sep 27 11:16:19 2018 (r338957)
+++ head/share/man/man5/msdosfs.5 Thu Sep 27 12:08:53 2018 (r338958)
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
.\" Written by Tom Rhodes
.\" This file is in the public domain.
.\"
-.Dd October 1, 2013
+.Dd September 27, 2018
.Dt MSDOSFS 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -15,9 +15,7 @@ The
.Nm
driver will permit the
.Fx
-kernel to read and write
-.Tn MS-DOS
-based file systems.
+kernel to read and write MS-DOS based file systems.
.Pp
The most common usage follows:
.Pp
@@ -43,9 +41,7 @@ that looks similar to:
/dev/ada0sN /dos msdosfs rw 0 0
.Ed
.Pp
-This will mount an
-.Tn MS-DOS
-based partition at the
+This will mount an MS-DOS based partition at the
.Pa /dos
mount point during system boot.
Using
@@ -58,6 +54,15 @@ See
for more information on
.Fx
directory layout.
+.Sh EXAMPLES
+Determine which FAT file system version (e.g, FAT16, FAT32)
+is a partition formatted with:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+file -s /dev/da0s1
+.Ed
+.Pp
+.Xr gpart 8
+may also be used to extract this information.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mount 2 ,
.Xr unmount 2 ,
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