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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboot Date: 21 Apr 1996 21:26:55 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4le96v$f8r@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31765561.52EF@portal.ca> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 Christoff Snijders <hjcs@portal.ca> writes: >1. If I run something like > >find / -name text.txt -print > >and I have an MS-DOS partition mounted (specifically, mount_msdos >/dev/wds1 /mnt, where wds1 is the DOS partition on my FreeBSD disk), the >machine reboots itself. Is this to be expected? expected? Yes, sorta. :-( msdosfs is known to be broken, in particular it's known to almost always crash with a FAT file system that has been shrunk with FIPS. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)