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Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newshost.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!palmer.demon.co.uk!palmer.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk (Gary Palmer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Error: root directory is not a multiple of the cluster size in length. Date: 13 Aug 1995 18:55:21 +0100 Organization: none Lines: 19 Message-ID: <40lea9$4l6@palmer.demon.co.uk> References: <DD4u0M.Hpo@news.cis.umn.edu> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: palmer.demon.co.uk In article <DD4u0M.Hpo@news.cis.umn.edu>, Mike Hobbs <hobb0001@gold.tc.umn.edu> wrote: > I get the error "mountmsdosfs(): root directory is not a multiple of >the cluster size in length." whenever I try to mount a DOS partition in 2.0.5. >My hard drive's real specs are 2099/16/63, but gets remapped to 524/64/63 by >the BIOS. It worked once before, but stopped working after I moved the >partitions around. Does anyone know what this error is about? Are you sure this is an error? I think you'll find that the mount has infact succeeded, and your DOS partition is infact mounted. You'll get the same warning from trying to mount a 720K floppy (yes, I still have some of those :-) ). IMHO, unless someone can point out why this warning is needed, it should not be printed unless you are running the kernel in verbose mode... It confuses WAY to many people (ok, I'll admit it, even me :-)) who run into this ``warning'' for the first time... Either that, or it should have `Warning:' prepended. Gary