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Date:      Sun, 24 Aug 1997 18:49:09 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Floppies for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <19970824184909.PH41183@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <11724.872414313@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Aug 24, 1997 02:18:33 -0700
References:  <Pine.SOL.3.91.970823204636.12697A-100000@ingenieria.ingsala.unal.edu.co> <11724.872414313@time.cdrom.com>

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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> 2. You need to use mount, not mount_mfs (which is for memory, not UFS,
>    filesystems).  Yes, there probably should be a mount_ufs too just
>    for orthogonality's sake but there isn't - I've complained about
>    the issue already before, and to deaf ears.  mount = mount_ufs.  :-)

There should be no user-visible mount_foo executables at all. :-)
Use -t foo if you need.

Normally, these programs would be candidates for /usr/libexec/, but
they need to reside in the root filesystem, for obvious reasons.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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