Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 13:31:34 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> To: Antonio Bemfica <bemfica@militzer.me.tuns.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how do I mount a DOS ZIP disk? Message-ID: <19980414133134.37930@ct.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980413160736.5663f-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 04:07:53PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980413181558.7032A-100000@militzer.me.tuns.ca> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980413160736.5663f-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Doug White:
|Antonio Bemfica:
|
|> How do I mount a DOS (FAT16) ZIP disk? I have no problems with ZIP disks
|> with the FreeBSD filesystem - "mount /dev/sd0 /zip" does it fine, but with
|> DOS formatted disks,
|>
|> "mount_msdos /dev/sd0 /zip"
|> or
|> "mount -t msdos /dev/sd0 /zip"
|>
|> result in a
|>
|> "mount_msdos: /dev/sd0: Invalid argument" error
|
|Try
|
|mount -t msdos /dev/sd0s1c /mnt
By default, DOS ZIP disks come formatted with slice 4 designated the
full-disk DOS slice. So likely what you want is:
mount -t msdos /dev/sd0s4 /mnt
Of course you can re-fdisk and format them any which way you want.
I tend to prefer putting my UFSs on my UFS ZIPs in slice 1, and leaving the
DOS FAT FSs in slice 4. Makes them easy to distinguish. My "mountzip"
script just tries to mount both slices, and succeeds on the correct one.
Randall
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