Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 21:53:35 -0500 (CDT) From: David Vondrasek <david@stumbleinn.dyn.ml.org> To: Alan Weber <aauu@ccms.net> Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mounting MS DOS partitions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9809072152230.294-100000@stumbleinn.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <35F47157.FC8220E3@ccms.net>
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On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Alan Weber wrote: > David Vondrasek wrote: > <much snipped> > > I have FreeBSD set as my second partition and FAT16 on the 1st, How can I > > mount the MSDOS/FAT16 partion ? And will I have access to the files as any > > other partition? > > > This is easy to do. > > 1). login as root > 2). mkdir /msdos or /fat16 or /whatever you want to call partition 1 > 3). /mount_msdos /dev/wd0s1 /fat16 > > You can add a line like the following to /etc/fstab to make the files present > when you boot up > /dev/wd0s1 /msdos msdos rw 0 0 > > If you want to mount FAT32 partitions you need to be on 2.2.7. > > A noted above you can access MSDOS/Win 9x FAT partitions in FreeBSD. I don't > know of a FreeBSD NTFS driver or a Win 9x/NT driver for UFS file systems. Worked like a charm ! now I have access to another 5 GIG ! Thanks ! -- David L. Vondrasek dlv@watertower.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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