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Date:      Mon, 30 Mar 1998 21:01:21 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Brian <root@cinch.rt66.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: vfat fs in freebsd?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980330210047.25417J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980330214258.1157A-100000@cinch.rt66.com>

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On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Brian wrote:

> 
> 
> On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Doug White wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Brian wrote:
> > 
> > >  Does anyone know if freebsd has vfat fs support? 
> > 
> > Not directly, but vmount can mount them okay and support is coming in 3.0,
> > I think.  I have a copy of vmount at ftp://gdi.uoregon.edu/pub/vmount*.
> 
>   Now will this mount like win95's fs, and be like its fs, and not
> msdos's? I've always used vfat support in my linux kernel, and it worked
> pretty nicely.. Been working with freebsd now, trying to tweak it for my
> home desktop box, and I have a win95 partition.. and thats why I asked
> about if fbsd had vfat support, does vmount do this?

I haven't tried it specifically, but vmount mounts it as a NFS volume.
You should get the long filenames and such just like any other FS.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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