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 -- 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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