Mac OS X Panther in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

Name

msdos.util

Synopsis

msdos.util -m device mount_point { fixed | removable } { readonly | writable } 
{ suid | nosuid } { dev | nodev }
msdos.util -p device { fixed | removable } { readonly | writable }
msdos.util -u device
msdos.util -n device name
                  

Mounts FAT (MS-DOS) filesystems into the directory hierarchy.

Options

-m

Mount the device.

-n

Reset the volume name of the device. This function doesn’t appear to work.

-p

Probe the device, and prints the volume name to standard output.

-u

Unmount the device. This function doesn’t appear to work.

device

The disk device filename, e.g. disk0s5.

mount_point

The directory on which the filesystem is mounted.