Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 12:42:00 -0500 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "Clarence Griffin" <Clarence_Griffin@ed.gov>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: can't get the floppy dirve to mount Message-ID: <199811041743.MAA18328@laker.net>
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On Wed, 4 Nov 1998 11:55:41 -0500, Clarence Griffin wrote: > Everything cooks right along, until i try to mount the floppy drive as > /A. > > the command recommend is : > # mount /dev/fd0 /A > > but the unexpected reply from my system is: > > mount: /A: No such file or directory Yes, use the following command once: mkdir /A The problem is that your mount command is attempting to use a *mount point* that doesn't exist. Create the mount point with the mkdir command. If you place files or directories on that mount point when the device is not mounted, those files/dirs will *appear* to disappear when you do mount the device, When you umount the device (you must umount when finished with a *removable filesystem*, or it will become corrupt, because some data didn't get physically written to the media) those files/dirs will *reappear*. Check your library for "Understanding UNIX" by QUE. Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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