From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 24 09:52:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA08613 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 09:52:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA08606 for ; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 09:52:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id SAA03741 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 18:52:46 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id SAA23528; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 18:49:09 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970824184909.PH41183@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 18:49:09 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floppies for FreeBSD References: <11724.872414313@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <11724.872414313@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Aug 24, 1997 02:18:33 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > 2. You need to use mount, not mount_mfs (which is for memory, not UFS, > filesystems). Yes, there probably should be a mount_ufs too just > for orthogonality's sake but there isn't - I've complained about > the issue already before, and to deaf ears. mount = mount_ufs. :-) There should be no user-visible mount_foo executables at all. :-) Use -t foo if you need. Normally, these programs would be candidates for /usr/libexec/, but they need to reside in the root filesystem, for obvious reasons. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)