From [email protected] Fri Feb  8 14:47:22 2013

        On 02/08/13 07:38, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
        >       From [email protected] Fri Feb  8 13:27:48 2013
        >
        >       On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
        >
        >         [ snip ]
        >
        >       > So what is the advice for transferring data
        >       > via USB in such cases? Any other gpart partition
        >       > I could use?
        >
        >       I've always used FAT32 for thumb drives and the like. I don't 
know if
        >       the SPARC would be able to use it, but FAT32 seems like it's 
most likely
        >       to be usable by the largest number of different platforms.
        >
        > But how do I create FAT32 partitions on FreeBSD?
        > The gpart doesn't seem to support it.
        >
        > Anton

        for a new fat32 fs I used:

        newfs_msdos -F 32 -L travelsize /dev/da0

        (FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 over here, for what it's worth)

got it, thanks.
Seems it works on sparc64 too.

Thanks

Anton
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