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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: mounting floppy Date: 12 Nov 1995 16:03:41 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4852cd$k5i@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <47tdll$t8o@dali.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> <47tk2m$s77@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Anthony Monroe <tmonroe@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: > I guess >that mount_msdos handles stuff a bit differently. Nope. It's exactly the same. mount(8) simply does a bit of option processing, but it hands off the actual mounting for every file system type != ufs, by simply appending the fs type to ``/sbin/mount_'', and calling the external mount program. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)