From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 17 21:24:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA22836 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 21:24:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms1.hinet.net (donny@ms1.hinet.net [168.95.4.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA22816 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 21:24:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from donny@localhost) by ms1.hinet.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) id MAA18318; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 12:21:33 +0800 (CST) Message-Id: <199610180421.MAA18318@ms1.hinet.net> From: donny@ms1.hinet.net (Donny Lee) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount DOS/OS2 partitions in read write mode? Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 12:10:41 -0400 Lines: 23 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -=*> Doug White wrote: >> 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 Luck me, I didn't use FIPS to alter any of my hd partitions. :) >HPFS disks aren't supported currently. Too bad. :) >> 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 > Install the 'color_ls' port and see it's manpage. Yes, I found it, and also lots of utilities from the installtion menus. thanks. // Donny