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Article #47704Re: beginner needs help on cp to fdisk
From: Bill Unruh
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 00:00
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In <8h6l67.vj2.ln@voyager> Gavin Rogers <grogers@omen.com.au> writes: >Grant Williams <grantandlinda@bigpond.com> wrote: >> The question is, how do i copy a file to a fdisk. Does the fd need to be >> specially formatted or something. As you guessed, I'm also new to unix >> etc... ... Either mount the disk (as Rogers suggested) or use the mtools. Just tick in the disk and run mcopy <filename> a: The mtools come on many Linux distributions. mdel mcopy mdir ... Do man mtools. Certainly for copying etc, mtools is far more efficient (no mounting, unmounting, etc.) Also on some unix systems (SunOS) mtools are a factor of 10 faster than the mounting route.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,c7aa178042db7fa9 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh) Subject: Re: beginner needs help on cp to fdisk Date: 1999/01/02 Message-ID: <76m3r4$mpd$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> X-Deja-AN: 428102990 References: <368cc308.0@139.134.5.33> <8h6l67.vj2.ln@voyager> Organization: The University of British Columbia Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux