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From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Win95 / mounting an ms-dos partition
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cjay <cjay@nwlink.com> writes:

>As for the mounting of an MS-DOS partition you may want to leave off the
>"fs" part of mount_msdosfs so that it reads "mount_msdos" and try again.

Well, more properly, you should use 'mount -t msdos' instead of
calling mount_msdos directly.

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