From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 11 17: 7:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f128.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.241.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B0BB37B61E for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:07:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmd526@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 80875 invoked by uid 0); 12 Apr 2000 00:07:53 -0000 Message-ID: <20000412000753.80874.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 209.220.228.2 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:07:53 PDT X-Originating-IP: [209.220.228.2] From: "John Daniels" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: mounting an msdos partition Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 20:07:53 EDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi: I just wanted to check on the stability and use of mount and mount_msdos. I searched the archives and it seems that AT ONE TIME it was recommended that msdos partitions only be used as read only (apparantly when writing, the FAT was not updated, causing curruption). Is it OK to both read and write to a mounted msdos partition? Are there any known issues/workarounds? Do I need to use translation s/w to handle the CRLF issues? I read that mount -t msdos will "figure out the issues" is this true? I am running 4.0-RELEASE and I basically just want to share Office type files. It would be great if StarOffice on FreeBSD could read and write the same files that MSOffice on Win98-2 could. I also have FrontPage on Win98 and it would be great if I could copy the files to my Apache directory, or if Apache would read the file from the msdos partition. At some point in the future I'd like to get VMware, until I do, I'd like to have as much sharing as possible, with as little user intervention as possible. John ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message