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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.mathworks.com!gatech!news.jsums.edu!news2.cais.net!news.cais.net!nntp.uio.no!nntp.uib.no!nntp-bergen.UNINETT.no!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!sthaug From: sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Mounting DOS problems Date: 03 Mar 1996 00:22:42 GMT Organization: Nethelp Consulting, Trondheim, Norway Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4haooi$5ej@verdi.nethelp.no> References: <3131C22A.32D6@nation-net.com> <4h96rt$gcg@mark.ucdavis.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: trane.uninett.no In-reply-to: obrien@Nuxi.com's message of 2 Mar 1996 10:11:09 GMT [David E. O'Brien] | Paul Walsh (paul@nation-net.com) wrote: | : Last night I mounted my DOS filesystem wd0s1. Today I am re-installing | : FreeBSD ( mmm, goody ). Seriously, this is a bit scary. Fortuneately it | : was a new installation. | | Yep, done that twice. Let me guess, you have a MS-DOS parition greater | than 504 Meg. | | There were two people in the hackers list that signed up to work on the | FAT filesys problems. Maybe they are getting closer to fix??? Another data point: I managed to utterly trash my /usr file system by mounting my MS-DOS partition wd0s1 and starting to copy from it to a directory under /usr. The MS-DOS partition was smaller than 504 MBytes. However, it *had* been bigger, had been reduced by using FIPS, but still had a cluster size of 32 kBytes. When mounting it, FreeBSD complained that the root directory was not a multiple of the cluster size. A bit into copying a file from the MS-DOS partition the machine panicked, and when it rebooted the /usr file system was trashed. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no