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From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Win95 / mounting an ms-dos partition
Date: 13 Dec 1996 01:03:56 GMT
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In article <32B08769.324D@watermarkgroup.com>,
	Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com> writes:
> Mark Tinguely wrote:
>> 
>> as root:
>> 
>> mkdir /msdos
>> mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /msdos
>> 
> My advice, DON'T do that. The msdosfs code is broken, it will screw up
> your bsd partition. Wait until vfatfs is released.

Has this been fixed in 2.1.6?

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