Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:29:35 +0800 From: Fbsd1 <fbsd1@a1poweruser.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: How To create msdosfs on HD? Message-ID: <4BD97BAF.8080002@a1poweruser.com>
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I have an old IDE 3.5 hard drive with FBSD Release 7.0 on it. I want to use it for USB disk space on XP. I bought a 'CD-r king' hard drive to USB cable. It will work with 2.5 & 3.5 IDE drives and sata drives. When I plug the USB end of the cable into a FBSD system I can mount the 3.5 IDE 7.0 HD's da0s1a, da0s1d, da0s1e and da0s1f file systems with no problem. But when I plug the same drive into a XP system the USB drive shows in system/devices/hard drives as there but windows explorer does not assign a drive letter for it. I'm thinking this is because the hard drive has UFS format and maybe it I reformat it to fat format xp will assign a drive letter to it. I know mount_msdosfs command is used to mount a HD formated with fat, but I could not find a FBSD command to create a msdos file system on a hard drive. Native dos fdisk/format is no good because it's not USB aware. Is there any FBSD command or port I can use to reformat the UFS hard drive with msdosfs?
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