From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 5 5:21: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.wxs.nl (smtp05.wxs.nl [195.121.6.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2038155C2 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 05:20:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.196.141]) by smtp05.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAAC22; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 14:20:17 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA99355; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 14:18:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 14:18:51 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Cyril Brion Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mount msdos help Message-ID: <19991005141851.K98066@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <37F9B358.6E90EE3F@saios.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <37F9B358.6E90EE3F@saios.com> Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On [19991005 12:13], Cyril Brion (cbri@saios.com) wrote: >I wanted to mount my msdos partition on /tmp. >But every time I want to do this, I have the message: >/dev/wd0c: incorrect argument >and: >bad signature, bad bpb or something like this. >What does mean these please? >(Before that I mounted the partition without any problem, but I don't >remember on which device) I you already have /tmp as part of your basesystem you cannot mount on top of it. Instead try to mount it to /mnt As an aside, if you could mount the MSDOS disk over /tmp it will be fun to see the chaos which would start as soon as applications wanted to use /tmp. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best I believe because it is Impossible... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message