Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 22:07:30 -0500 (CDT) From: Jason Godfrey <godfreja@dalamar.cs.uwec.edu> To: David Shanes <dshanes@personalogic.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting MS-DOS partition Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980819215211.11837C-100000@dalamar.cs.uwec.edu> In-Reply-To: <00e401bdcbd1$77d086c0$1d43a8c0@shanes.personalogic.com>
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On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, David Shanes wrote: > OK, so I installed 2.2.6 a while ago and am just starting to play with it > again. What is the command to mount the second partition on my primary hard > drive to /dos? First partition is NTFS, second is FAT, subsequent is > FreeBSD. (Assuming IDE) mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s2 /dos should do it for you. (About 80% confidence that wd0s2 is your DOS partition) > > Second, how do I get it to automatically mount every time I log in? Does it > go in my .cshrc file? > > mount_msdos /dev/???? /dos > > or > > mount -t msdos /dev/???? /dos > Well, if you are logging in as root you could do that, but there is a better approach. To have the dos parition mounted on boot add the following line to /etc/fstab /dev/wd0s2 /dos msdos rw 0 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jason Godfrey godfreja@acm.cs.uwec.edu FreeBSD - The Power to Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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