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15 driver will permit the
17 kernel to read and write MS-DOS based file systems.
19 The most common usage follows:
21 .Dl "mount -t msdosfs /dev/ada0sN /mnt"
25 is the partition number and
28 Some users tend to create a
33 This helps to keep better track of the file system,
34 and make it more easily accessible.
36 It is possible to define an entry in
38 that looks similar to:
40 /dev/ada0sN /dos msdosfs rw 0 0
43 This will mount an MS-DOS based partition at the
45 mount point during system boot.
48 as a permanent mount point is not advised as its intention
49 has always been to be a temporary mount point for floppy and
53 for more information on
57 Determine which FAT file system version (e.g, FAT16, FAT32)
58 is a partition formatted with:
59 .Bd -literal -offset indent
64 may also be used to extract this information.
72 This manual page was written by
73 .An Tom Rhodes Aq Mt trhodes@FreeBSD.org .