Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 16:23:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: mount_msdos woes Message-ID: <20020805161827.N18987-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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Two major major major issues today involving mounting a floppy diskette!! Grrrr... first of all, when I `mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy/` mount a diskette that may have been corrupted by FreeBSD, the entire system for some reason `cd` changes to the /floppy directory. When I issue `ls -al` my PC hangs. It won't respond to Ctrl-\ Ctrl-'.' or Ctrl-g nothing. I can Alt-F2, Alt-F3 etc and see login prompts but nothing comes out when I type on keys. While that `ls` process was trying to run and while I waited approx. 3 minutes to see if it would give up with an error, the OS wrote to my screen at three different times, warnings about the load (top, uptime etc). The first was 6.60 (and it announced the ls process and its PID), then 12.47 then 16.90 or something at which point I pressed the RESET button on my box. Can a little floppy disk take down FreeBSD so easily? What happened? The second issue is that `mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy/` mounts a floppy but TRUNCATES names! I did a mv command from my /etc/ folder on my HD to the floppy disk but now it is apparent to me that mount_msdos should be called mount_dos as it does not support long filenames (the way M$FT Dos 8.0 and later do)!!! Ugh! -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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