Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 22:16:33 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com> To: proot@horton.iaces.com (Paul T. Root) Cc: hounddog@juno.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mount dos partition Message-ID: <199612062016.WAA01481@eac.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: <199612061902.NAA07713@horton.iaces.com> from "Paul T. Root" at "Dec 6, 96 01:02:45 pm"
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Paul T. Root wrote:
> In a previous message, Hans N Gruber said:
> > I tried to mount my dos partition using the following command line:
> > mount -t msdos /dev/wd0 /mnt
> > and got message:
> > mount: invalid argument.
>
> A guess, but /dev/wd0 isn't a valid slice. You probably want
> /dev/wd0s0, if your first slice is DOS.
Paul probably meant
mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /mnt
^^
which is most usual. The digit may vary, but the numbering is
1-based.
>
> > It seems to me that mount_dos should be in /usr/sbin,(???)
> > but mine is in /sbin. Copying it to /usr/sbin didn't help
> > matters any. What am I doing wrong?
Leave it in /sbin. Mount commands belong in the / filesystem.
(Otherwise you may have to mount /usr to get at them.)
> > Also, what should be in my /mnt directory? It is empty.
It should be. Otherwise, stuff in it will just disappear when
you mount a filesystem there.
Beware of mounting DOS filesystems with cluster sizes greater
than 16384, unless you are running 3.0-current.
--
Robert Nordier
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