Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 13:21:27 -0700 From: charon@freethought.org To: media@mail1.nai.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting primary DOS partition Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990506132127.00a44430@mail> In-Reply-To: <37313E88.6E5636B@uk.radan.com> References: <v03130305b3528879a3dc@[209.150.39.65]> <v03130300b35651938ebf@[209.150.35.229]>
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At 08:02 AM 5/6/99 +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
>media@mail1.nai.net wrote:
>>
>> At 10:57 PM -0700 5/2/99, charon@freethought.org wrote:
>> >>Since I have 3.1-RELEASE more or less up and running, which command will
>> >>prove I can access my DOS partition from FreeBSD??
>> >
>> >cd /mnt
>> >mkdir DOS
>> >mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 DOS
>> >cd DOS
>>
>> I tried that. When I typed "mkdir DOS" it said "Permission Denied," so I
>> looged back on as root. After that, when I typed in "mount -t msdos
>> /dev/wd0s1 DOS" it responded:
>>
>> msdos: /dev/wd0s1: Device busy
>>
>
>That sounds like it's already mounted.
>
>Also I thought you had to absolute path the mountpoint (not 100% sure
>about this though):
>
>mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /mnt/DOS
No, the path doesn't have to be absolute (works the same way as other
commands - that's why I put in 'cd /mnt').
The drive is mounted, though. Do a 'df' to see the drives already mounted.
For example, when I type 'df' I see '/' as being device '/dev/wd0s3a'
which is what I'd expect, since I have FreeBSD installed on the third
partition on my drive. If I then type 'mount /dev/wd0s3a whatever', it
gives me a 'Device busy' error because root is already mounted.
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