vpix problems

[Chuck Forsberg]

In article <10071 at june.cs.washington.edu> witold at june.cs.washington.edu (Witold Paluszynski) writes:
:I am new to 386/ix and System V in general (I have used various
:flavors of BSD systems for a number of years).  I just tried using
:VP/ix and discovered some serious problems with it.  The system
:has a DOS partition (32 MB) on the disk which is mounted with:
:	mount -f DOS /dev/dsk/0p1 /dos

Instead of mounting the partition as a phoney Unix file system which
VP/ix must then translate back to a DOS file system, why not access
the DOS partition directly from VP/ix with an entry in vpix.cnf:

; MS-DOS partition on first hard disk
D			/dev/hd00

In my experience, the result of mount -f DOS is sufficiently
dissimilar from a *nix file system that programs such as du
and find are confused.

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