From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 18 19:49:40 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA16535 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 19:49:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA16518 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 19:49:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA08584; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 14:20:52 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199512190350.OAA08584@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: mount_msdos To: ipc1@tribeca.ios.com (Dale Benzer) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 14:20:52 +1030 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Dale Benzer" at Dec 18, 95 01:40:42 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dale Benzer stands accused of saying: > I have some files in .tgz format living on an msdos partition of my > FreeBSD server. I need to move them to the FreeBSD partition. > > I go to the /stand directory and type ./mount_msdos -u dale -g 0 -m 755. > All this is according to the man page for mount_msdos. But the system > comes back telling me I need "bdev" and "dir". Help! You should be using the 'mount' command, in this case mount -t msdos /dev/ where is the device that corresponds to your DOS partition, and is an empty directory that you want to mount the filesystem on. > Also, do I always have to type a ./ before a command? No. > And finally, what do you recommend for a PATH setting so I don't always > get "command not found?" One that contains at least /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin and /usr/local/bin. > Dale Benzer -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[