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Date:      Tue, 5 Oct 1999 14:18:51 +0200
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Cyril Brion <cbri@saios.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mount msdos help
Message-ID:  <19991005141851.K98066@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
In-Reply-To: <37F9B358.6E90EE3F@saios.com>
References:  <37F9B358.6E90EE3F@saios.com>

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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 <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
Network/Security Specialist        BSD: Technical excellence at its best
I believe because it is Impossible...


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