MSDOSFS(4)

📦 version 15.1, in freebsd 15.1

💾 NAME 💾

okay bestie, welcome to msdosfs(4) — the MS-DOS (FAT) file system page. This is the one about the driver that lets your FreeBSD kernel read and write MS-DOS based file systems. iconic behavior, honestly 💅

🗂️ SYNOPSIS 🗂️

To get this whole situation into your kernel, you enable:

options MSDOSFS

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

The msdosfs driver is the moment that permits the FreeBSD kernel to read and write MS-DOS based file systems. no cap, that's the whole job 🫶

The most common usage follows, and it's giving:

mount -t msdosfs /dev/ada0sN /mnt

where N is the partition number and /mnt is a mount point. Some users tend to create a /dos directory for msdosfs mount points. This helps to keep better track of the file system, and make it more easily accessible. lowkey a organizing queen move 🎀

It is possible to define an entry in /etc/fstab that looks similar to:

/dev/ada0sN             /dos    msdosfs         rw      0       0

This will mount an MS-DOS based partition at the /dos mount point during system boot.

🚨 bestie, using /mnt as a permanent mount point is not advised — its intention has always been to be a temporary mount point for floppy and ZIP disks. like, it's literally the guest room of mount points, not a forever home 😭

See hier(7) for more information on FreeBSD directory layout. very iykyk ✨

🧪 EXAMPLES 🧪

Wanna determine which FAT file system version (e.g, FAT16, FAT32) a partition is formatted with? run this:

file -s /dev/da0s1

gpart(8) may also be used to extract this information. slay, multiple routes to the same info 💖

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

go touch grass in these other pages, bestie:

💖 AUTHORS 💖

This manual page was written by Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>. giving credit where credit is due, periodt 👑

okay that's the whole msdosfs(4) moment 🌈 — this page came from Debian, dated September 27, 2018, and the manual tag is MSDOSFS(4). byeee, go mount something cute 🫶💖

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