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From: Greg Pavelcak <gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu>
Subject: Re: Mounting a DOS partition permanently
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On 12 Apr, Kevin Liquori wrote:
> Last night I discover how to mount a DOS partition with 'mount_msdos'.
> How can I incorporate this into the boot process so I do not have to
> manually do this each time? Also, where does one normally mount such
> partitions? I put it under /usr/dos and it seemed to work fine. I'm sure
> this is incorrect but I've only had my hands on Un*x for about four days
> now!
> 
> TIA
> -Kevin
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man fstab

You can add the dos partition to your /etc/fstab file and it will be
mounted automatically at boot up. 

As far as I know, you can mount a file system pretty much where you
want. /usr/dos looks good to me. I'm sure someone will correct me if
I'm wrong.

Also, it used to be that people advised against mounting large DOS
partitions. I don't know if that is still true, but perhaps you should
approach with caution. You might want to look at ports/emulators/mtools
anyway.

Good luck.

Greg


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