Re: msdos file system
Mike Lucius wrote:
>Just loaded Linux for the 1st time. I would like to know how to create
>an msdos file system. I think I need other files installed on my system
>but have not been able to figure out what or how.
You can't _create_ an MSDOS file system in Linux, but you can mount an
existing one. You should only create a partition using the operating
system to which it belongs.
The syntax for the command, which must be executed by the superuser (root) is:
mount -t msdos device mount_point
where device specifies the disk and partition and mount_point is a directory
where the partition will be mounted.
For example, I create a directory called /dosc and run
mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /dosc
which mounts the first primary partition of my first (master) IDE disk
under the /dosc directory. (There is already a DOS partition there, of
course.) I can then type `ls /dosc/windows' or whatever.
Use `man mount' to see further information.
You can also access a DOS floppy disk directly with the commands from
the mtools package.
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