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Date:      Sat, 3 Feb 1996 07:15:43 -0500 (EST)
From:      Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        stevt@digitalweb.com, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: newbie : How write to DOS Floppy ?
Message-ID:  <199602031215.HAA08078@hda.com>
In-Reply-To: <199602021013.LAA04791@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Feb 2, 96 11:13:36 am

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> 
> > trying to figure out how to write files to a DOS disk, my
> > floppy drive.
> 
> Either
> 
> 	mkdir /floppy
> 	mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
> 	cp mystuff /floppy
> 	umount /floppy

I use this all the time for simple DOS floppies, but I think
recommendations to use msdosfs should include the warning that it
is buggy and can corrupt your other mounted file systems.

That said, the problems seems to be with larger file systems, appear
to be related to having used FIPS to shrink DOS partitions, and
I've never had any problems in years of using it for floppies only.

Caveat Hackor -

Peter
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Peter Dufault               Real-Time Machine Control and Simulation
HD Associates, Inc.         Voice: 508 433 6936
dufault@hda.com             Fax:   508 433 5267



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