From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 11 13:37:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA24992 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 13:37:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from cam.grad.kiev.ua ([195.5.25.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA24984 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 13:37:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Ruslan@Shevchenko.kiev.ua) Received: from Shevchenko.kiev.ua (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cam.grad.kiev.ua (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA01145; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 00:31:41 GMT Message-ID: <3468F8EB.1E3ACEBB@Shevchenko.kiev.ua> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 00:31:40 +0000 From: Ruslan Shevchenko X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03b8 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Jolley CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting a DOS Partition References: <199711111828.KAA17779@jupiter.neptune.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doug Jolley wrote: > Specifically, I'm inquiring about how to mount a DOS partition. > I assume that it's something like: > > mount -t msdos /dev/??? /MountDir > > It's what replaces the question marks that baffles me. I think > this is a special case of the more general question, "How do > I tell what the filenames in the /dev directory relate to?" > Can someone please enlighten me? Thanks for any help. > /dev/?devicename>?Ndsk>s?nSlice>?letter> devisename=[fd, floppy] | [wd, ide drive] | [sd scsi drive] Ndsk = 0 .. number of devices, wd0 --- first IDE disk nSlice --- for dos usially 4. ?letter> -- I don't know. What is it ? > ... doug > _____________________________________________________________________ > Doug Jolley mailto://doug@bigwheel.net http://www.bigwheel.net > Don't bogart that file, my friend. Net it over to me. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------