From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Apr 9 20:06:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA12444 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 20:06:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA12415 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 20:05:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: from localhost (fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA11475; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 22:05:43 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 22:05:43 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: ruth moulton cc: David Wolfskill , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mounting floppy file systems In-Reply-To: <199804081015.LAA04240@muswell.demon.co.uk> 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 Wed, 8 Apr 1998, ruth moulton wrote: > > Hi - I mount dos file systems in yet another way!: > > I use the application mount_msdos(8), I happen to have set > up some aliases (rather than use /etc/fstab - no good reason for doing > it this way) because I use it so frequently: Just FYI, mount_msdos is what mount calls if you use mount -t msdos. Just like if you mount -t cd9660, it calls mount_cd9660, mount -t nfs calls mount_nfs, etc. So there's no difference between mount_msdos and mount -t msdos. mount_msdos is the only one that defaults to being setuid. IIRC, that's because it was deemed the one most likely to be often used by the non-admins. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message