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From: mcnab@bayarea.net (David McNab)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: mountmsdosfs() question
Date: 26 Jun 1996 19:23:14 GMT
Organization: Bay Area Internet Solutions (408)447-8690
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Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote:
|David McNab wrote:
|]
|] When I mount one of my MS-DOS partitions on my
|] FreeBSD 2.1 machine, I get the message:
|]
|] Jun 25 13:57:16 mcnab /kernel: mountmsdosfs(): root directory is not a
|multipleof the clustersize in length
|]
|] Is this something I should worry about? Is it
|] something I can fix?
|
|It means the cluster size is larger than what DOS would have
|put there for a partition of that size.
How would this happen? I think I followed the
canonical install-a-new-SCSI-drive procedure when
I installed the drive, although it's the first one
I've put in. I chopped the disk up into two fdisk
partitions (leaving about 1GB at the end for future
allocation), then built the DOS filesystem in the
first one using format /s. The second partition
is a BSD partition.
I wonder what I did wrong.
-- Dave McNab