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diff --git a/sbin/i386/mount_msdos/mount_msdos.8 b/sbin/i386/mount_msdos/mount_msdos.8 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..d6bd154a9401 --- /dev/null +++ b/sbin/i386/mount_msdos/mount_msdos.8 @@ -0,0 +1,119 @@ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1993,1994 Christopher G. Demetriou +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by Christopher G. Demetriou. +.\" 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products +.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES +.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. +.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, +.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT +.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, +.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY +.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT +.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF +.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $Id: mount_msdos.8,v 1.2 1994/11/19 17:55:35 nate Exp $ +.\" +.Dd April 7, 1994 +.Dt MOUNT_MSDOS 8 +.Os FreeBSD 2.0 +.Sh NAME +.Nm mount_msdos +.Nd mount an MS-DOS file system +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm mount_msdos +.Op Fl u Ar uid +.Op Fl g Ar gid +.Op Fl m Ar mask +.Pa special +.Pa node +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm mount_msdos +command attaches the MS-DOS filesystem residing on +the device +.Pa special +to the global filesystem namespace at the location +indicated by +.Pa node . +This command is normally executed by +.Xr mount 8 +at boot time, but can be used by any user to mount an +MS-DOS file system on any directory that they own (provided, +of course, that they have appropriate access to the device that +contains the file system). +.Pp +The options are as follows: +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Fl u +Set the owner of the files in the file system to +.Ar uid . +The default owner is the owner of the directory +on which the file system is being mounted. +.It Fl g +Set the group of the files in the file system to +.Ar gid . +The default group is the group of the directory +on which the file system is being mounted. +.It Fl m +Specify the maximum file permissions for files +in the file system. +(For example, a mask of +.Li 755 +specifies that, by default, the owner should have +read, write, and execute permissions for files, but +others should only have read and execute permissions. +See +.Xr chmod 1 +for more information about octal file modes.) +Only the nine low-order bits of +.Ar mask +are used. +The default mask is taken from the +directory on which the file system is being mounted. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr mount 2 , +.Xr unmount 2 , +.Xr fstab 5 +.Sh CAVEATS +The +.Nm msdos +filesystem is not known to work reliably with filesystems created by versions +of MS-DOS later than version 3.3. +.Pp +The limitations on file names imposed by MS-DOS are strange, at best. +For instance, they are +limited to single-case, 8 character names with 3 character extensions. +.Pp +If you see the warning: +.Pp +mountmsdosfs(): Warning: root directory is not a multiple of the clustersize in length +.Pp +then it is possible that writing to the MS-DOS filesystem would +produce corruption on the disk. This is a shortcoming in the code +which needs to be addressed. +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm mount_msdos +utility first appeared in FreeBSD 2.0. +Its predecessor, the +.Nm mount_pcfs +utility appeared in FreeBSD 1, and was abandoned in favor +of the more aptly-named +.Nm mount_msdos . |