From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 22 14:12:40 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A66037B401 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:12:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2550A43EB2 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:12:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([172.16.0.95]) by mail.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0MMDwko002612; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 17:13:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E2F174E.90805@potentialtech.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 17:12:30 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Reynolds Cc: "questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: 5.0-RELEASE and mount_msdos References: <20030122215211.7228048463@wastegate.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Reynolds wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:21:08 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > > >>Not a critical question, but ... >> >>Working on my spiffy test machine, I noticed that 5.0-RELEASE does >>not have a mount_msdos command. >>It's no biggie, I just used 'mount -t msdos' and got what I wanted, >>but I was wondering why this was missing? Is there a reason why >>it was removed, or is it some oversight? I doubt it's an oversight, >>as the man page is missing as well. >> >>Mostly curious, but I thought I'd point it out in case it was a >>mistake. > > > afaik: > > [root@/usr/bin]>uname -a > FreeBSD ############## 5.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE #30: Mon Jan 20 > 20:21:37 EST 2003 > > [root@/usr/bin]>mount_msdos > usage: mount_msdos [-o options] [-u user] [-g group] [-m mask] > [-s] [-l] [-9] [-L locale] [-W table] bdev dir > > and man mount_msdos brings up the manpage. Hmmm ... did you upgrade this machine from 4.X? The machine in question is a clean 5.0-RELEASE install. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message