[ug-bosug] a few questions...

[Pavan T C]

Pavan T C wrote:
> [Some snipped]
> 
>> - another surprising thing was that there was no man pages.... i guess
>> its cuz of licencing issues that its not yet available... do you have
>> any updates on the same?
>>
> True. It is because of the licensing issues. Sorry, dont have any more 
> information on that.
> 
>> -how do i mount a fat32 partition ????? a search on google gave me the 
>> command
>> mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c0d0p0 /winc
>> but i got an error message about not able to find the filesystem type..
> 
> 
> pcfs is the module that supports FAT. The way you specify the device to 
> be mounted is as follows :
> 
> To mount a primary partition :
> mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c1d0pN <mount point>
> where, N is 1,2,3 or 4 depending on the *primary partition* on which you 
> have the FAT. p0 denotes the entire disk. It can never be a device node 
> for a partition, and hence the error.
> 
> To mount extended partitions,
> mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c1d0p0:N <mount point>
> where N is d,e,f,g,... depending on the nth logical drive on the 
> extended partition on which you have FAT.
> 
>>
>> checking in the /etc directory, i found that only ufs, zfs, hpfs have
>> the mount programs but none for fat{16,32}  ... nor for ntfs, ext2,
>> reiser or bsd ufs2!!
>>
> 
> NTFS - No, we dont have a module yet.
> ext2 - We do have one, but it hangs off the web and no promises on that.
> Try it out : http://paulf.free.fr/software.html
> ReiserFS - No, we dont.
> 
> Does that suggest anything ? Please visit :
> http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Writing_Filesystems
> 
>> the only workaround solution was to burn a cd everytime i wanted to
>> transfer files to belenix... is there an easier way to do this ????
> 
> 
> I hope not anymore :-)
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I was *not* addressing the "easier way to do" part ;-)

Pavan