Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 08:38:39 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: media@mail1.nai.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, charon@freethought.org Subject: Re: mounting primary DOS partition Message-ID: <3732987F.2429F48F@uk.radan.com> References: <37313E88.6E5636B@uk.radan.com> <v03130305b3528879a3dc@[209.150.39.65]> <v03130300b35651938ebf@[209.150.35.229]> <v03130304b357c17c5716@[209.150.34.161]>
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media@mail1.nai.net wrote:
>
> At 1:21 PM -0700 5/6/99, charon@freethought.org wrote:
> >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
>
> Apparently I mounted it when I installed FreeBSD.
>
> >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.
>
> Thanx!! The df command showed that dev/wd0s1 is mounted on /1, so that's
> where the mount point I chose during install went :)
>
> I tried:
> mv -i 1 DOS
>
> and got:
> mv: cannot rename a mount point
>
You can if you umount it first:
umount /mnt/DOS
mount point dirs are just regular directoreis until they have
something mounted on them.
This sounds like it is being mounted at boot. If you rename /mnt/1 you
will probably get an error next time you boot. You'll need to edit
/etc/fstab to change the mountpoint from /mnt/1 to /mnt/DOS.
If you don't want it mounted automatically mounted at boot then add
``noauto'' to the ``rw'' option in /etc/fstab (note there are no
spaces before or after the comma):
/dev/wd0s1 /mnt/DOS msdos rw,noauto 0 0
HTH
> Even thought there are man pages for rename, trying to use rename says
> "Command not found." So I'm stuck calling it /1 for now.
>
There's no such command as rename in Unix, you were correct with mv.
> Anyway, I still can't seem to install X11R6 or the src files from my DOS
> partition. When I stand/install from root and go to load them I get:
>
> "Error mounting /dev/wd0s1 on /dist: device busy (16)"
>
> I tried to rtfm before I started this, but the sections on IDE and Slices
> in the handbook are unavailable (note the asterisks) in the FreeBSD
> handbook on the web, and I couldn't find anything in the FAQ. Any ideas??
>
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