Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 09:11:08 +1000 From: Jonathan Michaels <jon@welearn.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fstab mount options Message-ID: <20000705091107.A36569@phoenix.welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20000704001400.Z4112@nathan.ruhr.de>; from Udo Erdelhoff on Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 12:14:00AM %2B0200 References: <m266qmc43b.fsf@reader.ptw.com> <20000703143451.G433@dialin-client.earthlink.net> <20000704001400.Z4112@nathan.ruhr.de>
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On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 12:14:00AM +0200, Udo Erdelhoff wrote: > > If you want mortal users to mount MSDOS floppies, tho', you may want to > > give /usr/ports/emulators/mtools a try :-) It also works for MSDOS ZIP disks. this may not work, as expected. i tried a few years ago (on freebsd v2.2.5-release and v2.2.7-release) to use mtools to do some stuff with floopies and it failed in a truely bizare manner .. sorry i cannot remember, neither do i have a floopy (that i can mangle - from memory) to test the how it failed mode. maybe mtools has changed, maybe the underlaying mechanisms in freebsd have changed, all i ca remember is that if you needed to do stuff with floopies via mtools you need to be root to be assured of a reliable result. just another data point regards jonathan -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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