From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 23 16:28:38 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 7876737B401 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 16:28:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EC8343F13 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 16:28:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-a194.otenet.gr [212.205.215.194]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0O0SO3g013924; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 02:28:25 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0O0SNqN007155; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 02:28:23 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0O0SNkY007154; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 02:28:23 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 02:28:23 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Doug Reynolds Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: 5.0-RELEASE and mount_msdos Message-ID: <20030124002823.GA7125@gothmog.gr> References: <20030122221240.GD6811@gothmog.gr> <20030124001831.E489548463@wastegate.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030124001831.E489548463@wastegate.net> 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 On 2003-01-23 19:18, Doug Reynolds wrote: >On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 00:12:40 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>On 2003-01-22 16:52, Doug Reynolds 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