From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 5 14:05:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA20526 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 14:05:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-4.mail.demon.net (relay-4.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA20520 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 14:05:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-4.mail.demon.net id aa08026; 5 Aug 96 21:05 GMT Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa04943; 5 Aug 96 21:54 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.12) id RAA02135; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 17:34:04 GMT From: James Raynard Message-Id: <199608051734.RAA02135@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: New Drive To: Justin Ashworth Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 17:34:03 +0000 () Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Justin Ashworth" at Aug 5, 96 09:27:01 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Try 'mount -t msdos /dev/wd3a /DOS', or even > > > > 'mount -t msdos /dev/wd3s1 /DOS' > > I usually just do mount_msdos /dev/wd3s1 /DOS 'mount -t msdos' is the approved way - I don't think it matters for msdos, but for some other filesystems mount passes extra arguments to the mount_xxx program.