docs/56894: umass man page: "mount -t msdos" instead of "ufs"

Simon L. Nielsen simon at FreeBSD.org
Mon Sep 15 19:20:15 UTC 2003


The following reply was made to PR docs/56894; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon at FreeBSD.org>
To: Chris Shenton <chris at Shenton.Org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/56894: umass man page: "mount -t msdos" instead of "ufs"
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 21:14:14 +0200

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 On 2003.09.15 14:31:08 -0000, Chris Shenton wrote:
 
 > >Description:
 >=20
 > To mount a CF in a umass USB reader, the man umass page says to do
 > "mount -t ufs /dev/da0c /mnt".
 >=20
 > I had to use "-t msdos" rather than UFS, and believe the man page is in
 > error.
 
 That depends on which filesystem you have actually put on the CF.  The
 example in umass(4) also run disklabel and newfs programs on the
 filesystem.  If you do that, you will defiantly get a UFS filesystem.
 Did you do that?
 
 This is btw. no different from any other storage device.
 
 --=20
 Simon L. Nielsen
 FreeBSD Documentation Team
 
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