From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 7 19:55:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA19408 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 19:55:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from studio.watertower.com (studio.watertower.com [204.178.73.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA19396 for ; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 19:55:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@stumbleinn.dyn.ml.org) Received: from [206.138.229.16] (david@[206.138.229.16]) by studio.watertower.com (8.8.7/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA06506; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 22:22:03 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 21:53:35 -0500 (CDT) From: David Vondrasek To: Alan Weber cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Mounting MS DOS partitions In-Reply-To: <35F47157.FC8220E3@ccms.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Alan Weber wrote: > David Vondrasek wrote: > > > 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