Re: fat32 question

2015-09-20 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 16:23:42 +0200 Zoran Kolic wrote: > > Zoran, re Brandon's "won't understand it any more." > > Dont despair & discard stick, you can rebuild the MBR: man fdisk > > from memory start with fdisk -i -B /dev/da0 > > First, thanks all for replies! > After a bit of puzzling, I

Re: fat32 question

2015-09-20 Thread Zoran Kolic
> Zoran, re Brandon's "won't understand it any more." > Dont despair & discard stick, you can rebuild the MBR: man fdisk > from memory start with fdisk -i -B /dev/da0 First, thanks all for replies! After a bit of puzzling, I found that the problem was every Transcend usb stick I have. They are al

Re: fat32 question

2015-09-20 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Tomoaki AOKI wrote: > According to "Real Hardware Gotchas" section in [1], FAT32 fs creation > of FreeBSD seems to have some problems. > > Try formatting by the hardware you're going to transfer files from > FreeBSD, if available. Once formatted by other OS, read/write/delete > files in FAT32 form

Re: fat32 question

2015-09-20 Thread Tomoaki AOKI
According to "Real Hardware Gotchas" section in [1], FAT32 fs creation of FreeBSD seems to have some problems. Try formatting by the hardware you're going to transfer files from FreeBSD, if available. Once formatted by other OS, read/write/delete files in FAT32 formatted media would be OK with Fre

Re: fat32 question

2015-09-19 Thread Bruce Burden
When I mount a FAT32 fs, it is /dev/daXs1, where X is 0, 1, etc. I would not expect to see /dev/da0. >From my fstab file: /dev/da0s1 /usb_flash msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 /dev/da1s1 /usb_flash2 msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 FWIW, this is 10.0 STABL

Re: fat32 question

2015-09-19 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 12:55 AM, Zoran Kolic wrote: > I have a device to which I'd like to connect otg cable > and insert 16gb usb stick. Tried "newfs_msdos -F32 /dev/da0". > This was probably a mistake; USB sticks are partitioned, and you wiped out the partition table by using da0 instead of e