From: chrisa@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (C. G. Albone) Subject: Re: smount Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1992 04:11:06 GMT
In article <64872@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0449a@prism.gatech.EDU (Rob Coleman) writes:
>So, am I to assume that the method of mounting a dos filesystem (ie. my
>Dos partition on my drive) to copy files over is now preferred over the
>"mcopy" solution? The previous release gave the impression that it
>shouldn't be used around useful data :)
>Thanks..
Well, I have used the msdos fs for transferring files between a dos partition
and linux, and thus far I have not experienced any problems with data loss or
the like.. Yes, it is much more convinient to mount a dos fs than to use mtools.
Of course, I cant promise that my dos partition won't dissappear in a cloud
of random bits... ;-)