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