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Date:      Wed, 22 Jan 2003 17:12:30 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Doug Reynolds <mav@wastegate.net>
Cc:        "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 5.0-RELEASE and mount_msdos
Message-ID:  <3E2F174E.90805@potentialtech.com>
References:  <20030122215211.7228048463@wastegate.net>

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Doug Reynolds wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:21:08 -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
> 
> 
>>Not a critical question, but ...
>>
>>Working on my spiffy test machine, I noticed that 5.0-RELEASE does
>>not have a mount_msdos command.
>>It's no biggie, I just used 'mount -t msdos' and got what I wanted,
>>but I was wondering why this was missing?  Is there a reason why
>>it was removed, or is it some oversight?  I doubt it's an oversight,
>>as the man page is missing as well.
>>
>>Mostly curious, but I thought I'd point it out in case it was a
>>mistake.
> 
> 
> afaik:
> 
> [root@/usr/bin]>uname -a
> FreeBSD ############## 5.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE #30: Mon Jan 20
> 20:21:37 EST 2003
> 
> [root@/usr/bin]>mount_msdos
> usage: mount_msdos [-o options] [-u user] [-g group] [-m mask]
>                    [-s] [-l] [-9] [-L locale] [-W table] bdev dir
> 
> and man mount_msdos brings up the manpage.

Hmmm ... did you upgrade this machine from 4.X?  The machine in question
is a clean 5.0-RELEASE install.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com


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