Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 17:58:15 +0200 (MET DST) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> To: roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Robert Eckardt) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: Making a DOS Partition writeable Message-ID: <199610201558.RAA13239@freebie.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199610171158.NAA01001@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> from Robert Eckardt at "Oct 17, 96 01:58:30 pm"
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Robert Eckardt writes: >> I have a 30MB Primary DOS partition on the same HD with FreeBSD. >> Unfortunately, it is Read-Only. Is it possible to mount a DOS partition >> that id Read-Write capable? Why is the primary DOS partition Read-Only? > > Look into /etc/fstab > You will find a line like > /dev/wd0s1 /c msdos ro 0 0 > This makes it read-only: ^^ > > Just change it to > /dev/wd0s1 /c msdos rw 0 0 There's a good reason that DOS file systems get mounted read-only. The file system code *was* buggy, and a write to an MS-DOS file system could cause file system corruption. I don't know if it's still the case--maybe somebody else can comment--but you should know the potential risks of writing to DOS file systems. Greg
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