From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 4 16: 8:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (phoenix.welearn.com.au [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFDC237B75B for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 16:08:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from jon@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA36647 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 09:11:11 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jon) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 09:11:08 +1000 From: Jonathan Michaels To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fstab mount options Message-ID: <20000705091107.A36569@phoenix.welearn.com.au> Reply-To: jon@welearn.com.au Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000703143451.G433@dialin-client.earthlink.net> <20000704001400.Z4112@nathan.ruhr.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <20000704001400.Z4112@nathan.ruhr.de>; from Udo Erdelhoff on Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 12:14:00AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 12:14:00AM +0200, Udo Erdelhoff wrote: > > If you want mortal users to mount MSDOS floppies, tho', you may want to > > give /usr/ports/emulators/mtools a try :-) It also works for MSDOS ZIP disks. this may not work, as expected. i tried a few years ago (on freebsd v2.2.5-release and v2.2.7-release) to use mtools to do some stuff with floopies and it failed in a truely bizare manner .. sorry i cannot remember, neither do i have a floopy (that i can mangle - from memory) to test the how it failed mode. maybe mtools has changed, maybe the underlaying mechanisms in freebsd have changed, all i ca remember is that if you needed to do stuff with floopies via mtools you need to be root to be assured of a reliable result. just another data point regards jonathan -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message