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Subject: Re: mount dos partition
In-Reply-To: <199612061902.NAA07713@horton.iaces.com> from "Paul T. Root" at "Dec 6, 96 01:02:45 pm"
To: proot@horton.iaces.com (Paul T. Root)
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 22:16:33 +0200 (SAT)
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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