chim@ece-csc.UUCP (Bill Chimiak) (03/16/88)
Does anyone know if it is possible to mount a floppy volume? Venix on the old DEC Rainbow allowed this option. Can it be done on the unixpc?
pjc@pcbox.UUCP (Paul J. Condie) (03/16/88)
In article <3443@ece-csc.UUCP> chim@ece-csc.UUCP (Bill Chimiak) writes: >Does anyone know if it is possible to mount a floppy >volume? Venix on the old DEC Rainbow allowed this >option. Can it be done on the unixpc? you bet. try "mount /dev/fp021 /mnt"
adh@anumb.UUCP (a.d.hay) (03/16/88)
In article <3443@ece-csc.UUCP> chim@ece-csc.UUCP (Bill Chimiak) writes: >Does anyone know if it is possible to mount a floppy >volume? Venix on the old DEC Rainbow allowed this >option. Can it be done on the unixpc? mount /dev/fp021 /mnt # /mnt can be any directory; should be empty. umount /dev/fp021 # will fail if you are in the mount directory.
brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes) (03/18/88)
In article <3443@ece-csc.UUCP> chim@ece-csc.UUCP (Bill Chimiak) writes: >Does anyone know if it is possible to mount a floppy >volume? Venix on the old DEC Rainbow allowed this >option. Can it be done on the unixpc? Sure, it's easy. Just format a floppy, stick it in the drive, and say: % mount /dev/fp021 /mnt This will mount the floppy on your /mnt "mount point." To dismount, just: % dismount -f -- Brant Cheikes University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science ARPA: brant@linc.cis.upenn.edu, UUCP: ...drexel!manta!brant
nic@marque.mu.edu (Nic Bernstein) (03/18/88)
In article <196@anumb.UUCP> adh@anumb.UUCP (a.d.hay) writes: >In article <3443@ece-csc.UUCP> chim@ece-csc.UUCP (Bill Chimiak) writes: >>Does anyone know if it is possible to mount a floppy >>volume? Venix on the old DEC Rainbow allowed this >>option. Can it be done on the unixpc? > > >mount /dev/fp021 /mnt # /mnt can be any directory; should be empty. >umount /dev/fp021 # will fail if you are in the mount directory. "dismount" is the preferred method on the 7300/3B1. You may need to say "dismount -f" although that should be the default. I am not totally sure why this is prefered, but I suspect that dismount does at least one "sync" and properly sets the disk flags. It should also be said, that the system is set up so that only the superuser "root" can mount and dismount devices. - Roger - Using Nic's Account
tom@lakesys.UUCP (Tom Baas) (03/19/88)
I have been following this article closely as I have not been able to mount a floppy device. under root I: /mount /dev/fp021 /mnt I get: mount: No such device or address I do have a mnt directory and a /dev/fp021 I have also tried mounting to a new empty directory but to no avail. Any suggestions? thanks :-)
ignatz@chinet.UUCP (Dave Ihnat) (03/20/88)
In article <517@lakesys.UUCP> tom@lakesys.UUCP (Tom Baas) writes: >I have been following this article closely as I have not been able to >mount a floppy device. Under root I: >/mount /dev/fp021 /mnt > >I get: >mount: No such device or address You may have a formatted diskette, but you don't have a Unix filesystem on it. If you format the diskette via the 'ua' menu, this will be done for you; else issue 'mkfs /dev/rfp021' for a 10-sector formatted diskette, or 'mkfs /dev/rfp021 632:100' for an 8-sector diskette. (These are the default values from /usr/bin/Fformat.sh and /usr/bin/Fformat10.sh for 3.51) Of course, you may play with the inode values for 'mkfs' as feels good to you...
tom@lakesys.UUCP (Tom Baas) (03/20/88)
> you may have a formatted diskette, but you don't have a Unix filesystem on it. > If you format the diskette via the 'ua' menu, this will be done for you; else > issue 'mkfs /dev/rfp021' for a 10-sector diskette, or > 'mkfs /dev/rfp021 632:100' for an 8-sector diskette. (these are the default > values from /usr/bin/Fformat.sh and /usr/bin/Fformat10.sh for 3.51) > Of course, you may play with the inode values for 'mkfs' as feels good to > you... Thanks. I tried it and sure enough.... it works. What I had done before was to take a diskette that I had backed up onto via the 'ua' backup. I did it for a single user and It only used 1 diskette. But I guess I can't now mount it on '/mnt'(or anywhere else for that matter) Now, the question is ..WHY? Thanks again. I really appreciate your help.
adh@anumb.UUCP (a.d.hay) (03/21/88)
In article <524@lakesys.UUCP> tom@lakesys.UUCP (Tom Baas) writes: >What I had done before was to take a diskette that I had backed up onto >via the 'ua' backup. I did it for a single user and It only used 1 diskette. >But I guess I can't now mount it on '/mnt'(or anywhere else for that matter) >Now, the question is ..WHY? > >Thanks again. I really appreciate your help. it was created by cpio -oB > /dev/rfp021 and so doesn't need or have a filesystem f i l l e r andy hay +-----------------------------------------------+ happy 3b1 user | "Something wonderful will happen!" | ihnp4!mvuxq!adh +-----------------------------------------------+
jlw@lznv.ATT.COM (j.l.wood) (03/23/88)
Using the User Agent to format floppies does a mkfs on the floppy so it's `mount'able. As in: mount /dev/fp021 /mnt and unmounted by umount /dev/fp021 When you do a backup or cpio you use the raw device /dev/rfp021. This creams the superblock and inode table of the floppy and consequently it must be re-formatted or at least re-mkfs-ed before it can be mounted again. Joe Wood lznv!jlw
chim@ece-csc.UUCP (Bill Chimiak) (03/23/88)
Many thanks for the replies. The answer was /etc/mount /dev/fp021 /mnt is what mounts the volume. /etc/dismount unmounts the volume. Thanks again Bill Chimiak