Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 17:18:43 +0200 From: "Siegbert Baude" <Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de> To: "C. A. Daelhousen" <cd9@buffalo.edu> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions LIST" <FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org>, "Peter Leftwich" <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Subject: Re: mtools vs mount Message-ID: <00f201c24ea6$32c05b80$406a3c86@whwurm.uniulm.de> References: <20020826220454.P1757-100000@dhcp-402-55.san.rr.com> <20020827075718.A3273@selvirjin.buffalo.edu> <3D6B82A9.3000904@gmx.de> <20020827170149.C3712@selvirjin.buffalo.edu>
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Hi Chad, >>> in /etc/fstab: >>> /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos rw,noauto,longnames 0 0 >> >> man mount_msdos snippet: > [snip] > > Yes, everyone running FreeBSD has that manpage-- > without its formatting destroyed by cut'n'paste. Sorry for that. Didn't get mutt to work nicely with imap until now. >> And this works: > Obviously it didn't work for the original poster, > or they wouldn't have posted the question. Why it didn't work for the original poster, I don't know, maybe he can answer this. > Note that on a *blank* floppy, no long names are found, so short names > are assumed. So if the archive is put on a blank floppy mounted > short-name in the first place, then no amount of "mount -l"ing later > will recreate the long names. If you would have read the man snippet instead of deleting it, you would have seen, that longname is the default _except_ only short names are already found on the floppy, when mounting it. At least that is my understanding of the man page. > I don't have any bare DOS machines, so I don't ever use short names; > therefore, the longnames option in /etc/fstab is more convenient and > useful. (And it's not in with the -l/-s options in the manpage.) Seems to be a good idea. The only thing is maybe, that you won't be able to read the disk on plain DOS? Sorry, I didn't test this, and it probably doesn't concern many people nowadays. > > If you didn't have anything useful to say to me, don't reply to me. Go > back up the thread for that. If a clarification, including the service of the relevant man snippet in case you can't reach a FBSD machine, where you're reading mails, is a faux-pas in your opinion, I deeply excuse for having done so. BTW, http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=826558+0+current/freebsd-qu estions seems to indicate, that I sent my offending message to Peter Leftwich, just cc-ing C.A. and the list, as I always believed to be good practice on this list, as you never know, which of the participants in a thread are subscribed to the list. Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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