From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 5 19:56:31 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 E5ED237B400 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 19:56:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from services.webwarrior.net (overlord-host99.dsl.visi.com [209.98.86.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86A3543E6E for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 19:56:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from friar_josh@webwarrior.net) Received: from twincat.vladsempire.net (12-218-27-215.client.mchsi.com [12.218.27.215]) by services.webwarrior.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10CE5838203; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 21:56:26 -0500 (CDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Josh Paetzel To: Peter Leftwich , Siegbert Baude Subject: Re: mount_msdos woes Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 21:54:42 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] Cc: FreeBSD LIST References: <20020805221911.Y31182-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <20020805221911.Y31182-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200208052154.42799.friar_josh@webwarrior.net> 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 On Tuesday 06 August 2002 02:51, Peter Leftwich wrote: > On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Siegbert Baude wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > > 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 > > Ah, I simply mixed up "device" (/dev/fd0) with "drive" (the virtual a: > drive notation). > > > > 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 > > There isn't any mount binary that supports long filenames in _MS_ DOS? > > By the way, I just did `minfo a:` on both a working floppy and that one > that crashes my system; Which line of information might give me the best > clues as to the problem with the "bad disk?" There is a line that says > "fats: 2" - that sends up a red flag, no? > > -- > Peter Leftwich At some point you do have to realize you are dealing with a floppy. ;) Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message