On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 19:23, David Shuman <[email protected]> wrote: > Question there are reports that OpenBSD handles FAT32 > yet the mount_msdos command seems to indicate only > FAT partitions of one byte less than 4GB are supported. > Is the documentation up to date and was I lucky because > my msdos partition was an empty partition (of around > 55GB) so I was inside the first 4GB?
You are mistaken... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table >Is the documentation > out of date or am I attempting an unsupported operation? > The largest a single file can be is one byte less than 4GB. FAT32 drives can be up to 8TB with 32KB clusters or 2TB with 512 byte clusters. > I have successfully done a > > mount_msdos -l B /dev/wd0k B /windows/data > > I then wrote a test file and copied a file into the mounted > msdos partition. B (I have since both read and checked > the partition from windows and it seems to be valid) > > Can anyone assist me in translating this to the appropriate > entry in the /etc/fstab file, if it is appropriate for OpenBSD? > ( I would like RW access)
