From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Jun 28 12:52:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA02503 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 12:52:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from login-2.eunet.no (0@login-2.eunet.no [193.71.71.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA02405 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 12:52:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from havardjv@gudmund.vgs.no) Received: from arwen.myst.no (pc10.bergen-pm2-1.eunet.no [193.75.12.10]) by login-2.eunet.no (8.9.0/8.9.0/GN) with ESMTP id VAA13757; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:51:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (hjv@localhost) by arwen.myst.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA00693; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 19:49:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from havardjv@gudmund.vgs.no) X-Authentication-Warning: arwen.myst.no: hjv owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 19:49:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Haavard Vaagstoel X-Sender: hjv@arwen.myst.no To: Tim Gerchmez cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: It seems FreeBSD is crashable... ;-) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Tim Gerchmez wrote: > Anyway, it's nice to have some extra storage space for temporary > stuff in 8.3 filename format, should I need it (highly unlikely), or to grab > a text file I had downloaded under Win95 or something. I have it > automatically set up to mount now in .login so I can access it anytime I > please. I'm aware of the risks of writing to the DOS filesystem from > FreeBSD, BTW... and plan to use it mostly for copying FROM the DOS drive TO > a directory on my FreeBSD drive. I would suggest that instead of (uhrgg) mounting it from your .login, you put it in your /etc/fstab, and set it to be auto-mounted upon booting. And since you plan to use it mostly to copy *from*, you might as well mount it read-only while you're at it. -- Haavard Vaagstoel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message