MOUNT_MSDOS(8) BSD System Manager's Manual MOUNT_MSDOS(8)NAMEmount_msdos — mount an MS-DOS file system
SYNOPSISmount_msdos [-o options] [-u uid] [-g gid] [-m mask] special node
DESCRIPTION
The mount_msdos command attaches the MS-DOS filesystem residing on the
device special to the global filesystem namespace at the location indi‐
cated by node. This command is normally executed by 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).
The options are as follows:
-o options
Use the specified mount options, as described in mount(8).
-u uid Set the owner of the files in the file system to uid. The
default owner is the owner of the directory on which the file
system is being mounted.
-g gid Set the group of the files in the file system to gid. The
default group is the group of the directory on which the file
system is being mounted.
-m mask
Specify the maximum file permissions for files in the file sys‐
tem. (For example, a mask of 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
chmod(1) for more information about octal file modes.) Only the
nine low-order bits of mask are used. The default mask is taken
from the directory on which the file system is being mounted.
SEE ALSOmount(2), unmount(2), fstab(5), mount(8)CAVEATS
FreeBSD 2.1 and earlier versions could not handle cluster sizes larger
than 16K. Just mounting an MS-DOS file system could cause corruption to
any mounted file system. Cluster sizes larger than 16K are unavoidable
for file system sizes larger than 1G, and also occur when filesystems
larger than 1G are shrunk to smaller than 1G using FIPS.
HISTORY
The mount_msdos utility first appeared in FreeBSD 2.0. Its predecessor,
the mount_pcfs utility appeared in FreeBSD 1.0, and was abandoned in
favor of the more aptly-named mount_msdos.
BSD April 7, 1994 BSD
