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Old 1st July 2011
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Originally Posted by sepuku View Post
Does this mean that my external drive is msdos?I thought that msdos and ntfs was the same?
The definitive answer can be seen in the output of disklabel(8). What is the filesystem type shown for partition "i"?

NTFS & MS-DOS are two completely different filesystems, however, it sounds like you have a flash drive which are frequently formatted as MS-DOS. If this indeed is the case, then you will be able to successfully read & write to it.

Note that I am simply trying to guess given very limited information. For a precise answer, post the output of disklabel(8).
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