Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:30:05 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Cary Marshall <camarshall@ntr.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Copying UNIX files from a dos partition
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980218112915.13769J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <34EA44A8.894C30E1@ntr.net>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Cary Marshall wrote:

> How can I copy UNIX files from a dos partition to a UNIX partition?

You can mount DOS (FAT12 or FAT16) partitions directly:

mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /mnt
cp /mnt/file /dest/file
umount /mnt

Or install and ue the mtools distribution.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.96.980218112915.13769J-100000>