From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 28 16:06:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA07144 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 16:06:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA07133 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 16:06:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (aeiusrF-41.aei.ca [206.186.205.41]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA29617; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 19:05:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35E737B3.8475C7D2@aei.ca> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 19:05:23 -0400 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Tinguely CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@sweda.com.hk Subject: Re: command References: <199808281512.KAA23780@plains.NoDak.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Tinguely wrote: > > > 1) for Dos > > 2) for BSD > > > > Which command i can > > read the dos partition? > > the smart thing to do is automatically mount the DOS partition when booting. > then you can access the drive as if it is another Unix partition. in > /etc/fstab, add (this assumes that you are using a IDE drive and DOS is the > first partition): > > /dev/wd0s1 /dos msdos rw 0 0 > > or you can manually mount the partition as root: > > # mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /dos I would like to know if that command understand FAT 32 (I have freebsd 2.2.7 with msdosfs support in the kernel). Also I would like to know if there is chance to screw (broke) my dos partition. Any man page or doc about the FAT32? -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message