From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 20 23:14:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA01306 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:14:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.ukrv.de (gatekeeper.ukrv.de [193.175.72.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA01296 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:14:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by gatekeeper.ukrv.de; (5.65/1.1.8.2/17Oct95-0336PM) id AA04742; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 08:14:02 +0100 Received: from mailhost(193.175.66.33) by gatekeeper.ukrv.de via smap (V1.3-JSC) id sma022575; Fri Mar 21 08:13:48 1997 Received: from merlin.ukrv.de by mailhost.ukrv.de; (5.65/1.1.8.2/08Mar95-0213PM) id AA28890; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 08:13:48 +0100 Received: by merlin.ukrv.de (4.1/UKRV-Gen PCG 0.1) id AA08207; Fri, 21 Mar 97 08:13:47 +0100 From: Udo Wolter Message-Id: <9703210713.AA08207@merlin.ukrv.de> Subject: Re: Coping Files From MS-DOS to a BSD Partitian? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 08:13:47 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: from "Matthew D. Fuller" at Mar 20, 97 10:29:57 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL17] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi ! > I use the mount_msdos command, but I imagine you could use mount -t msdos. > The format I use is: > mount_msdos -m 500 /dev/(whatever) /dos > the -m sets the mask to owner read/execute, so I don't accidentally screw > my filesystem; I've heard rumors that FreeBSD has no real problems > writing MSDOS filesystems, but I tend to stay on the safe side. I got many problems writing MSDOS-fs. Everytime I wrote on it, scandisk told me about lost chains. When I forgot to use scandisk, my partition really gets bad. One time I totally screwed it up. Since then I only use MSDOS-partitions as read only...:-( This is a bad situation, I'd like to write on it, but there are so few messages about the development of MSDOS-support, so it's too dangerous for me to try it again. Maybe someone can tell me why it happens ? Or even maybe he or she can tell me if it's ok now ? Bye, Udo -- Udo Wolter, email: uwp@cs.tu-berlin.de !!! LOW-TECH Page: http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~uwp/low-tech.html !!!