From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 3 04:14:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA25418 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 04:14:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA25412 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 04:14:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id HAA08078; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 07:15:44 -0500 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199602031215.HAA08078@hda.com> Subject: Re: newbie : How write to DOS Floppy ? To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 07:15:43 -0500 (EST) Cc: stevt@digitalweb.com, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199602021013.LAA04791@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Feb 2, 96 11:13:36 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > trying to figure out how to write files to a DOS disk, my > > floppy drive. > > Either > > mkdir /floppy > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy > cp mystuff /floppy > umount /floppy I use this all the time for simple DOS floppies, but I think recommendations to use msdosfs should include the warning that it is buggy and can corrupt your other mounted file systems. That said, the problems seems to be with larger file systems, appear to be related to having used FIPS to shrink DOS partitions, and I've never had any problems in years of using it for floppies only. Caveat Hackor - Peter -- Peter Dufault Real-Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267