In article <1992Aug9.225151.9873@bernina.ethz.ch> almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger) writes:
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>In article <1992Aug9.203814.9805@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> rahayden@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Silicon Avatar) writes:
>> 1)  What is the proper way to "mount" a MS-DOS drive?  I have Linux on
>> hdb2 and wanted to mount hda1.  I used the following (which was sent
>> to me so i assumed it worked for somebody) command:
>> 
>>      mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt
>
>That should work, except if
>
>  - your mount is broken in some strange way (unlikely)
>  - your mount is very old (unlikely)
>  - /mnt doesn't exist (-> mkdir /mnt)
>  - /mnt exists, but is in use. You can either try to figure out what is
>    using /mnt or you create a new directory and try again.
>  - /dev/hda1 is inaccessible or already mounted
>  - there's no MS-DOS file system on /dev/hda1 (very unlikely ;-)
>  - you're not root
>
>The following should work in any case:
>
>  - reboot
>  - log in as root
>  - mkdir /DOS
>  - mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /DOS
>
>Note that the MS-DOS FS is still in alpha and that it may exhibit anti-
>social behaviour if you push it too hard.

I had the same problem with mounting my MS-DOS partition with 0.96c-pl2; I
had /dev/hda1 as DOS and /dev/hda2 as Linux. I tried to mount it, but I
got the device busy message. So I did a df, and guess what? It showed my
_LINUX_ partition was /dev/hda1, and was mounted as the root device! Fdisk
showed that /dev/hda1 was my DOS partition, though...is that weird, or what?

On a related note, with 0.96c-pl2, I repartitioned my drive (hda1's the Linux
partition now), and tried mounting the DOS partiton. It mounted, but said
"no BMap support", and when I tried to do an ls of the directory where the
DOS FS was mounted, it showed nothing and gave some message about doing
something to a directory; df and mount both showed it as mounted, though.
(Dontcha just love all that technobabble? It gave "some message" :-)

Any ideas why it would do that?

                                James

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