MSDOSFS(5) FreeBSD File Formats Manual MSDOSFS(5)
NAME
msdosfs - MS-DOS (FAT) file system
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 <
[email protected]>.
FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8 September 27, 2018 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8