From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 18 5:26:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from extremis.demon.co.uk (extremis.demon.co.uk [194.222.242.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DF6E737B795 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 05:26:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjvc@extremis.demon.co.uk) Received: (qmail 16645 invoked by uid 1010); 18 Feb 2000 10:58:10 -0000 Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 10:58:10 +0000 From: George Cox To: courtney@whtz.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting a floppy Message-ID: <20000218105810.E14651@extremis.demon.co.uk> References: <85256888.00832C19.00@mail.whtz.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.2i In-Reply-To: <85256888.00832C19.00@mail.whtz.com>; from courtney@whtz.com on Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 06:52:44PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT (i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 17/02 18:52, courtney@whtz.com wrote: > I have a question that to many will seem very remedial, but since I > have never had a need for it, I never learned how to do it :-) > > How do I properly mount/unmount a floppy disk (1.4 MB) right now 'right now'? You mean 'this second'? Well you can use mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy but you don't have to mount the disc. You can use mtools instead. The commands mdir, mcopy, mdel and friends let you copy stuff to and from the device itself and the filesystem on the machine. cd /usr/ports/emulators/mtools && make install > I do "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt" and it lets me see the disk, but how can it > un-mout it? umount /mnt (or umount /mnt/floppy in my example above) > Also, how can I format a floppy once it's mounted in FreeBSD 3.2? Hrmmmmm. You NEVER format a filesystem once it's mounted. EVER. man fdformat gjvc -- [gjvc] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message