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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to mount fat16 partition Post 4266 by Andy Hibbins on Monday 23rd of July 2001 08:03:32 AM
Old 07-23-2001
Hi,

Have you tried adding the following to your /etc/fstab file:
Code:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/msdos msdos  auto

I think the msdos file type should work okay for fat16 filesystems.

For fat32 filesystems you'll need to add vfat for the fs type.

i.e. a partition named /dev/.hda8 add the following to fstab:
Code:
/dev/hda8 /mnt/fat32 vfat  auto

Of course you'll need to ensure that the mount directories have been created before mounting the directories.

To mount the fat16 partition you'd type:
Code:
mount /mnt/msdos

or
Code:
mount /dev/hda1

I hope this helps.

Andy Smilie

Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 10-21-2010 at 07:36 AM.. Reason: added code tags
 

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MSDOSFS(5)						      BSD File Formats Manual							MSDOSFS(5)

NAME
msdosfs -- MS-DOS 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 direc- tory layout. SEE ALSO
mount(2), unmount(2), mount(8), mount_msdosfs(8), umount(8) AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>. BSD
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