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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: mounting a dos partition
Date: 14 Jul 1996 09:09:23 GMT
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gi143@cybercomm.net (glen) wrote:

> Does anyone know how to mount a dos partition.  I do not see a msdos
> file system anywhere.  Thank you very much.  

Then you must be either blind, or haven't tried very hard. ;-)

j@uriah 915% locate msdos
/lkm/msdos_mod.o
/sbin/mount_msdos
/usr/share/man/man8/mount_msdos.8.gz
/usr/src/lkm/msdos
/usr/src/lkm/msdos/Makefile
/usr/src/sbin/i386/mount_msdos
/usr/src/sbin/i386/mount_msdos/Makefile
/usr/src/sbin/i386/mount_msdos/mount_msdos.8
/usr/src/sbin/i386/mount_msdos/mount_msdos.c
/usr/src/sys/msdosfs
/usr/src/sys/msdosfs/bootsect.h
/usr/src/sys/msdosfs/bpb.h
/usr/src/sys/msdosfs/denode.h
/usr/src/sys/msdosfs/direntry.h
/usr/src/sys/msdosfs/fat.h
/usr/src/sys/msdosfs/msdosfsmount.h
/usr/src/sys/msdosfs/msdosfs_conv.c
/usr/src/sys/msdosfs/msdosfs_denode.c
/usr/src/sys/msdosfs/msdosfs_fat.c
/usr/src/sys/msdosfs/msdosfs_lookup.c
/usr/src/sys/msdosfs/msdosfs_vfsops.c
/usr/src/sys/msdosfs/msdosfs_vnops.c

(Slightly pruned for brevity.)

-- 
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. ;-)