Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 02:28:23 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Doug Reynolds <mav@wastegate.net> Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 5.0-RELEASE and mount_msdos Message-ID: <20030124002823.GA7125@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20030124001831.E489548463@wastegate.net> References: <20030122221240.GD6811@gothmog.gr> <20030124001831.E489548463@wastegate.net>
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On 2003-01-23 19:18, Doug Reynolds <mav@wastegate.net> wrote: >On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 00:12:40 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>On 2003-01-22 16:52, Doug Reynolds <mav@wastegate.net> wrote: >>> On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:21:08 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: >>> >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. >>> >>> 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. >> >>Strange. This has been changed a while ago: >>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sbin/mount_msdosfs/Makefile.diff?r1=1.17&r2=1.18 >> >>and the only mount_msdos binary that I have in my system is a rather >>stale copy from Oct 9 2002 (boy, I need to clean up this installation >>one of these days): > > seems so. is there any automated way to prune the old stuff? I don't know of any automated way. The best way I can think of is to use a spare partition that has enough space for installing the base system, which is mounted under /mnt, and used as a temporary root filesystem while the real /, /var, /usr or any other filesystems are cleaned up. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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