From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 15 18:35:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sn1oexchr01.nextvenue.com (sn1oexchr01.nextvenue.com [63.209.169.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B3FBE37B5D2 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 18:35:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nevans@nextvenue.com) Received: FROM sn1exchmbx.nextvenue.com BY sn1oexchr01.nextvenue.com ; Sat Jul 15 21:33:21 2000 -0400 Received: by sn1exchmbx.nextvenue.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id <3987SA5W>; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 21:30:46 -0400 Message-ID: <712384017032D411AD7B0001023D799B07C9DB@sn1exchmbx.nextvenue.com> From: =?utf-8?B?TmljayBFdmFucw==?= To: =?utf-8?B?J0RhbiBOZWxzb24n?= , =?utf-8?B?WmhpaHVpIFpoYW5n?= Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: =?utf-8?B?UkU6IENvcHkgZmlsZXMgd2luOTg8LT5mcmVlYnNkIG9uIHNhbWUg?= =?utf-8?B?bWFjaGluZQ==?= Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 21:30:43 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01BFEEC5.754223A0" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01BFEEC5.754223A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Yeah, but what about FAT32? Is it supported by mount_msdos? -----Original Message----- From: Dan Nelson [mailto:dnelson@emsphone.com] Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2000 9:33 PM To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Copy files win98<->freebsd on same machine 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 ------_=_NextPart_001_01BFEEC5.754223A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" RE: Copy files win98<->freebsd on same machine

Yeah, but what about FAT32? Is it supported by mount_msdos?

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Nelson [mailto:dnelson@emsphone.com]
Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2000 9:33 PM
To: Zhihui Zhang
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Copy files win98<->freebsd on same machine


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).


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