From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 6 13:21:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A676B14D9A for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 13:21:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from charon@freethought.org) Received: from c40948-a ([24.1.7.99]) by mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail v4.00.03 201-229-104) with SMTP id <19990506202126.MPWM24898.mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com@c40948-a>; Thu, 6 May 1999 13:21:26 -0700 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990506132127.00a44430@mail> X-Sender: tuathadedanann@mail X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 13:21:27 -0700 To: media@mail1.nai.net From: charon@freethought.org Subject: Re: mounting primary DOS partition Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <37313E88.6E5636B@uk.radan.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. __________________________________________ Charon@freethought.org http://members.home.net/tuathadedanann/ "Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." -Albert Einstein __________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message