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Manual Pages  — MSDOSFS

NAME

msdosfs – MS-DOS (FAT) file system

CONTENTS

SYNOPSIS

options MSDOSFS

DESCRIPTION

The msdosfs driver will permit the FreeBSD kernel to read and write MS-DOS based file systems.

The most common usage follows:

    mount -t msdosfs /dev/ada0sN /mnt

where N is the partition number and /mnt is a mount point. Some users tend to create a /dos directory for msdosfs mount points. This helps to keep better track of the file system, and make it more easily accessible.

It is possible to define an entry in /etc/fstab that looks similar to:

/dev/ada0sN             /dos    msdosfs         rw      0       0

This will mount an MS-DOS based partition at the /dos mount point during system boot. Using /mnt as a permanent mount point is not advised as its intention has always been to be a temporary mount point for floppy and ZIP disks. See hier(7) for more information on FreeBSD directory layout.

EXAMPLES

Determine which FAT file system version (e.g, FAT16, FAT32) is a partition formatted with:
file -s /dev/da0s1

gpart(8) may also be used to extract this information.

SEE ALSO

mount(2), unmount(2), fsck_msdosfs(8), mount(8), mount_msdosfs(8), newfs_msdos(8), umount(8)

AUTHORS

This manual page was written by Tom Rhodes <Mt trhodes@FreeBSD.org>.

MSDOSFS (5) September 27, 2018

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