From - Mon Dec 01 11:19:21 1997 Path: newsstand.tc.umn.edu!newshub.tc.umn.edu!fu-berlin.de!peerfeed.ncal.verio.net!newshub1.home.com!news.home.com!enews.sgi.com!news.corp.sgi.com!not-for-mail From: Alexis Cousein Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.hardware Subject: FYI: Mounting DOS filesystems Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 21:33:00 +0100 Organization: Silicon Graphics Belgium Lines: 35 Message-ID: <347F2A7C.5656@brussels.sgi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lancelot.brussels.sgi.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01SGoldC-SGI (X11; I; IRIX 6.3 IP32) Xref: newsstand.tc.umn.edu comp.sys.sgi.admin:55920 comp.sys.sgi.hardware:32723 Seen this on these forums a few times, so this might be of interest. Under IRIX 6.3 for the O2 including R10000, a non-floppy based DOS filesystem can be mounted on the IRIX filesystem hierarchy. This FYI documents the specific procedure necessary to mount such a filesystem, as it requires different options and arguments than mounting a floppy device. The "partition" option of the mount(1M) command must be used, and the filesystem name should be the entire volume of the SCSI disk device. Otherwise, the mount command will fail with an error message such as: Bad Magic: DOS Boot Sector The following is an example of creating and mounting a DOS filesystem: # mkfp -t dos /dev/rdsk/dks1d3vol mkfp: Device is dksc major mkfp: Capacity: = 1920.43 MBytes mkfp: partition index = 1 mkfp: partition size = entire media mkfp: partition label = Untitled mkfp: Device = /dev/rdsk/dks1d3vol mkfp: All existing data on media will be lost mkfp: continue ? (y/n) y # mount -t dos -o rw,partition=1 /dev/rdsk/dks1d3vol /mnt Other partitions (e.g. 2, 3) can also be created and mounted. Refer to the mkfp(1M) man page for details. The IRIX 6.5 fstab(4) man page has been updated to include information regarding the "partition" option. -- Alexis Cousein Sales Support Engineer Silicon Graphics NV/SA (Belgium) al@brussels.sgi.com (or al@sgi.be for a slower/shorter alternative)