From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 17 11:40:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA19984 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 11:40:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA19936 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 11:40:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA04954; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 11:40:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 11:40:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Donny Lee cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mount DOS/OS2 partitions in read write mode? In-Reply-To: <199610170619.OAA09261@ms1.hinet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 17 Oct 1996, Donny Lee wrote: > Through a whole week nights hard work, I finally have the > 2.1.5 installation done. > > Now I'm wondering if I can mount DOS & OS/2 partitions in? > and in read & write mode. Could it be possible? FreeBSD can mount FAT filesystems read/write. Be warned that some filesystems, especially those that have been FIPSd, are in a format that FreeBSD doesn't like with the current msdosfs code and could cause data corruption. HPFS disks aren't supported currently. > And I ever saw other's machine with several colors for different > file types when 'ls' issued, but how come my 2.1.5 doesn't look > like that? Install the 'color_ls' port and see it's manpage. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major