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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!news-m01.ny.us.ibm.net!newsfeed.uk.ibm.net!hursley.ibm.com!news From: rcjones@ Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: mounting dos partitions? Date: 20 Nov 1996 12:05:42 GMT Organization: IBM UK Laboratories Ltd. Lines: 36 Message-ID: <56us6m$ah8@zen.hursley.ibm.com> References: <56i6mt$ne0@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> <56lljq$hj2@anorak.coverform.lan> Reply-To: rcjones@ NNTP-Posting-Host: rcjones.hursley.ibm.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.9d - NLS In <56lljq$hj2@anorak.coverform.lan>, brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) writes: >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 I tried this and it said something like "msdos: mount: invalid option" .. option or paramter.. I only have bin dist installed so far.. could this be why?? Also, this is a FAT partition created under OS/2. DOS is not on the machine.. Any ideas?? > >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. > >-- >Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> > <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/> >Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... >..