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10 .Nd MS-DOS file system
16 driver will permit the
18 kernel to read and write MS-DOS based file systems.
20 The most common usage follows:
22 .Dl "mount -t msdosfs /dev/ada0sN /mnt"
26 is the partition number and
29 Some users tend to create a
34 This helps to keep better track of the file system,
35 and make it more easily accessible.
37 It is possible to define an entry in
39 that looks similar to:
41 /dev/ada0sN /dos msdosfs rw 0 0
44 This will mount an MS-DOS based partition at the
46 mount point during system boot.
49 as a permanent mount point is not advised as its intention
50 has always been to be a temporary mount point for floppy and
54 for more information on
58 Determine which FAT file system version (e.g, FAT16, FAT32)
59 is a partition formatted with:
60 .Bd -literal -offset indent
65 may also be used to extract this information.
73 This manual page was written by
74 .An Tom Rhodes Aq Mt trhodes@FreeBSD.org .