Something for Solid ? Was: Application maintainerships

Adriaan de Groot groot at kde.org
Tue Aug 8 22:51:33 BST 2006


On Tuesday 08 August 2006 22:22, Kevin Ottens wrote:
> Le mardi 8 août 2006 18:28, Alexander Neundorf a écrit :
> > Do mtools work on these unices ? And can't they mount VFAT floppies ? I
> > don't know.
> > If mtools are really still required, I'll have a look at the
> > floppy-ioslave again.
>
> Very good questions... Actually I assumed that *BSD (at least FreeBSD) were
> able to mount VFAT volumes and floppies. Could we have more information on
> this? I really find it weird that those systems still can't handle vfat
> floppies natively...

mount -t msdosfs
mount -t vfat

There's a couple of options to tweak autodetection of VFAT and the like, but 
it works. So I wouldn't worry about compatibility for FreeBSD (mount_msdosfs) 
or OpenBSD (mount_msdos) or NetBSD (mount_msdos).


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