From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 5 15:32:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30BE637B400 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 15:32:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (gemini.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.246.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35DBB43E42 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 15:32:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from siegbert.baude@gmx.de) Received: from gmx.de (lilith.wh-wurm.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g75MWJ66029341 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NOT); Tue, 6 Aug 2002 00:32:19 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <3D4EFCF8.9080201@gmx.de> Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 00:32:24 +0200 From: Siegbert Baude User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; de-AT; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Leftwich Cc: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: mount_msdos woes References: <20020805173403.E21601-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Peter, >>Have you taken a look at mtools in the ports collection? It saves you >>from having to mount the floppy at all. I'm pretty sure mount_msdos >>tries to use fat32 on anything it touches, not really a desirable >>situation at any rate. > I just > `pkg_add -r mtools` package-added mtools this moment but am dismayed > already by the following: > > myprompt$ minfo -v /dev/fd0 > Mtools version 3.9.8, dated 27 November 2001 > Usage: minfo [-v] drive minfo a: would have been correct. man mtools > Wouldn't most FreeBSD users agree that mounting removable media is more > integrated and "full of oneness" than an mtools solution? Maybe I'm alone. At least mtools is able to show long file names. I prefer it much over mounting floppies for a single file access. Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message