Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 20:47:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to mount a CD.........in 250 easy steps Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909012041100.354-100000@guru.phone.net> In-Reply-To: <19990826130926.A48046@gurney.reilly.home>
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On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Andrew Reilly wrote: :->This is one of the reasons that I only ever use MS-DOS-formatted :->floppies: there's no need to mount them, and all the mucking :->around that that entails. I just use mtools to talk to them. Hmmph. I consider "mtools" to be mucking about - confusion about drive letters, format conversions, etc. Personally, I only use floppies for moving data around, so I just I just added: /dev/fd0c /floppy msdos rw,noauto 0 0 to /etc/fstab, and floppies are no harder to deal with than cdroms: "mount /floppy" and it's there. If I need to use FFS-formatted floppies, I'll add another line. :->Perhaps mtools, or a similar toolset that knew how to read and :->write off-line FFS filesystems, could be hooked to run as mountable :->file system, amd/nfs-style. FFS? That wouldn't help with the cdrom problem that started this. But having to know another flag to mount (to get the fs right) seems much saner than having to know yet another set of commands to deal with an fs. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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