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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.eecs.umich.edu!panix!rek.tjls.com!rek.tjls.com!not-for-mail From: tls@rek.tjls.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: chmod'ing msdos fs and mount problems Date: 22 Dec 1995 17:42:04 -0500 Organization: Never! Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4bfc7s$233@fearsome.tjls.com> References: <4acqam$2m8@ccshst05.cs.uoguelph.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: fearsome.tjls.com In article <4acqam$2m8@ccshst05.cs.uoguelph.ca>, The YossMan <yossman@osiris.cs.uoguelph.ca> wrote: > >which leads me to me second question. When i load /dos2, which is an IDE >1.03GIG drive (second physical drive), I get "mountmsdosfs(): root >directory is not a multiple of the clustersize in length". I don't >really know what this means or what to expect when using the filesystem, >so I have disabled loading it for now. Any ideas? I bet you made that filesystem with Lose 95. It seems to do that quite a bit. I haven't managed to damage such a filesystem by writing it with msdosfs, but msdosfs in general seems to lose in various ways so I try not to write with it anyway. -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com Where is the day that melted into one rich noise? --Thomas Wolfe