From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 15 18:32:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E10AB37B86A for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 18:32:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA22829; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 20:32:45 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 20:32:45 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Copy files win98<->freebsd on same machine Message-ID: <20000715203245.B19101@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.5i In-Reply-To: ; from "Zhihui Zhang" on Sat Jul 15 21:21:57 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jul 15), Zhihui Zhang said: > > I have a box installed with both windows98 and freebsd4.0. Can I read and > write files in windows98 with mount_msdos utility from freebsd safely? I > do not want to risk the danger of damaging my windows98 paritition. If > possible, I want to access both C and D drive of windows98. You certainly can. In fact, I have moved my win98 partition to a completely new drive by mounting the old and new disks and doing a "tar|tar" to copy the data over, and had no problems at all (I've done it twice actually). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message