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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.


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