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08-03-2009

figaro

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Mounting a USB stick in FreeBSD

When mounting a USB stick or pen drive on a FreeBSD machine I always issue the following command:

Code:

mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt

Something I have always wondered is what the option msdosfs stands for and more importantly, why it is necessary.

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