mounting floppy volume

Brant Cheikes brant at manta.UUCP
Fri Mar 18 05:08:56 AEST 1988


In article <3443 at ece-csc.UUCP> chim at 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 at linc.cis.upenn.edu, UUCP: ...drexel!manta!brant



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