Floppy Disk and CD-ROM Filesystems

Floppy Disk and CD-ROM Filesystems

IRIX allows you to mount and use filesystems on floppy disks, floptical disks, and CD-ROMs. You can use these filesystems on your own system, or you can export them via NFS for use on other systems (if you have NFS® installed). See the ONC3/NFS Administration Guide for more information on exporting filesystems.

The operating instructions for these kinds of filesystems are similar and are covered in detail in the mediad(1M) reference page.

Note: Only one instance of mediad is allowed per system. That is, two invocations of mediad for the same device generate an error. IRIX supports the following CD-ROM, floptical disk, and floppy disk filesystem formats:

FAT (MS-DOS®)
HFS (Macintosh)
EFS and XFS (IRIX filesystem)
ISO 9660
Photo CD
High Sierra
Music CD format

CD-ROM Filesystems
Floppy Disk Filesystems