Trying out the Phoenix web browser in FreeBSD....very very nice.

Anyways, I thought I'd drop by to throw a few notes to some people who may not know how to mount MSDOS partitions in FreeBSD. I did use Google to attempt to find out how to do this but saw more questions than answers. The FreeBSD handbook (which I bought, the actual book) didn't cover how to mount MSDOS partitions and the manual pages didn't either.

Here's how you do it. You use the 'mount_msdosfs' command, like so:

/sbin/mount_msdosfs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt/dos1
/sbin/mount_msdosfs /dev/ad2s5 /mnt/dos2
/sbin/mount_msdosfs /dev/ad2s6 /mnt/dos3
/sbin/mount_msdosfs /dev/ad4s5 /mnt/dos4

Insert the partition (or 'slice', as FreeBSD people say) you'd like to mount. You can also add those slices to your /etc/fstab file, like so:

# Device                Mountpoint     FStype   Options  Dump    Pass#



# Mounting Windows Partitions

/dev/ad0s1              /mnt/dos1       msdos   rw              0       0

/dev/ad2s5              /mnt/dos2       msdos   rw              0       0

/dev/ad2s6              /mnt/dos3       msdos   rw              0       0

/dev/ad4s5              /mnt/dos4       msdos   rw              0       0

I'm posting all this here in the chance that it may help someone. In fact, I'm also going to use this blog as a notetaking tool. I go to my blogs from time to time when I forget how I'd done something or what command I'd used to apply something in Linux/Unix.

OK, I'm calling it the night. Oh yeah...to see some of my digicam pics, go to http://www.unixfool.com/images/.
I was playing around and there are 2 pictures of my computer rig that start with the letters "DSC". They are big so if you're on dialup, this is your warning. :o)

G'night.