Subject: Re: Reading same hard disk in NetBSD and MSDOS system?
To: Bruce Martin <BruceM@cat.co.za>
From: Eric Fox <eric@fox.phoenix.az.us>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/14/1999 01:57:24
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Bruce Martin wrote:

> We are currently developing an application that requires being able to
> use a hard disk under NetBSD to store information, and then removing the
> disk, placing it in a Windows/DOS system, and reading that information
> off the drive. I know it is possible to mount MSDOS file systems under
> NetBSD and use them, but how do you then mount the same partition under
> DOS/Windows to read what was written by NetBSD?
> 

You just use the DOS/Windows drive/filesystem syntax, i.e. c:\, d:\, e:\,
or whatever the drive turns out to be.

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