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Date:      Tue, 27 Aug 2002 11:42:36 +0300
From:      "Andrey Simonenko" <simon@comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua>
To:        "Peter Leftwich" <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: mtools vs mount
Message-ID:  <004301c24da5$b35af360$6d36120a@pm5149>
References:  <20020826220454.P1757-100000@dhcp-402-55.san.rr.com.lucky.freebsd.questions>

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Leftwich" <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
Newsgroups: lucky.freebsd.questions
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 8:11 AM
Subject: mtools vs mount
> 2. Why doesn't `mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy` support long filenames so

mount_msdos -l /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

> I can just work directly with the diskette? (e.g. I want to tar and gzip
all

If you diskette has bad blocks or if your floppy drive cannot
read some sector from the mounted diskette, then you will have
trouble.


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