Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 22:44:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting Remote Fat & NTFS partions in FreeBSD 2.2.2 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970830224129.664R-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <34073EF2.500C@midwest.net>
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On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Jonathan E. Lyons wrote:
> Is it possible to mount a remote Fat/NTFS partion in Freebsd 2.2.2?
> I've used samba to map BSD partions to my Win95/NT machines, but I'm
> wondering can samba map a remote Fat/NTFS volume under say /usr/home/?
NTFS partitions are not supported.
You can mount FAT (FAT16) partitions, though, by specifying the option '-t
msdos' to the mount command. For instance:
mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /mnt
will bring on a DOS partition on the first IDE disk onto /mnt. The slice
number may vary by disks. Note you can also mount extended partitions by
using slice numbers >4. The first logical disk would be /dev/wd0s5 in the
above example.
The man page mount_msdos(8) gives a warning which must be heeded to
prevent filesystem damage:
If you see the warning:
mountmsdosfs(): Warning: root directory is not a multiple of the
clustersize in length
then it is possible that writing to the MS-DOS filesystem would
produce corruption on the disk. This is a shortcoming in the code which
needs to be addressed.
If you see this warning umount the disk immediately and do not attempt to
mount it again.
Doug White | University of Oregon
Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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