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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: mounting dos partitions?
Date: 17 Nov 1996 00:18:02 -0000
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In article <56i6mt$ne0@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>,
skrace@excaliber.com (Michael Sun) writes:
: i was wondering if i could mount my dos FAT partitions in freebsd like i can in
: linux, if so could someone tell me how
Don't try to mount anything larger than 1022Mb under FreeBSD. There's a
bug in the code that'll sh*t all over you filesystem (not just the DOS one).
If you partition's <= 1022Mb, try something like
mount -t msdos /dev/sd0s1 /mnt
Where the 'sd' is the disk type (wd for IDE, sd for SCSI), the '0' is the
disk number and the '1' is the physical partition number. For extended
partiton entries, add '4' to the partition number.
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Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
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