1*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.\" Written by Tom Rhodes 2*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.\" This file is in the public domain. 3*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.\" 4*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Dd September 27, 2018 5*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Dt MSDOSFS 4 6*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Os 7*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Sh NAME 8*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Nm msdosfs 9*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Nd MS-DOS file system 10*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Sh SYNOPSIS 11*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Cd "options MSDOSFS" 12*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Sh DESCRIPTION 13*1687d771SAlexander ZiaeeThe 14*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Nm 15*1687d771SAlexander Ziaeedriver will permit the 16*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Fx 17*1687d771SAlexander Ziaeekernel to read and write MS-DOS based file systems. 18*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Pp 19*1687d771SAlexander ZiaeeThe most common usage follows: 20*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Pp 21*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Dl "mount -t msdosfs /dev/ada0sN /mnt" 22*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Pp 23*1687d771SAlexander Ziaeewhere 24*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Ar N 25*1687d771SAlexander Ziaeeis the partition number and 26*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Pa /mnt 27*1687d771SAlexander Ziaeeis a mount point. 28*1687d771SAlexander ZiaeeSome users tend to create a 29*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Pa /dos 30*1687d771SAlexander Ziaeedirectory for 31*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Nm 32*1687d771SAlexander Ziaeemount points. 33*1687d771SAlexander ZiaeeThis helps to keep better track of the file system, 34*1687d771SAlexander Ziaeeand make it more easily accessible. 35*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Pp 36*1687d771SAlexander ZiaeeIt is possible to define an entry in 37*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Pa /etc/fstab 38*1687d771SAlexander Ziaeethat looks similar to: 39*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Bd -literal 40*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee/dev/ada0sN /dos msdosfs rw 0 0 41*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Ed 42*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Pp 43*1687d771SAlexander ZiaeeThis will mount an MS-DOS based partition at the 44*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Pa /dos 45*1687d771SAlexander Ziaeemount point during system boot. 46*1687d771SAlexander ZiaeeUsing 47*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Pa /mnt 48*1687d771SAlexander Ziaeeas a permanent mount point is not advised as its intention 49*1687d771SAlexander Ziaeehas always been to be a temporary mount point for floppy and 50*1687d771SAlexander ZiaeeZIP disks. 51*1687d771SAlexander ZiaeeSee 52*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Xr hier 7 53*1687d771SAlexander Ziaeefor more information on 54*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Fx 55*1687d771SAlexander Ziaeedirectory layout. 56*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Sh EXAMPLES 57*1687d771SAlexander ZiaeeDetermine which FAT file system version (e.g, FAT16, FAT32) 58*1687d771SAlexander Ziaeeis a partition formatted with: 59*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Bd -literal -offset indent 60*1687d771SAlexander Ziaeefile -s /dev/da0s1 61*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Ed 62*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Pp 63*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Xr gpart 8 64*1687d771SAlexander Ziaeemay also be used to extract this information. 65*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Sh SEE ALSO 66*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Xr mount 2 , 67*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Xr unmount 2 , 68*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Xr mount 8 , 69*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Xr mount_msdosfs 8 , 70*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Xr umount 8 71*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.Sh AUTHORS 72*1687d771SAlexander ZiaeeThis manual page was written by 73*1687d771SAlexander Ziaee.An Tom Rhodes Aq Mt trhodes@FreeBSD.org . 74