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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: mountmsdosfs() question Date: 26 Jun 1996 18:59:51 -0500 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4qsitn$95@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <4qpkb1$le6@pier2.bayarea.net> <31D0A8BF.52F72816@lambert.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. It may be caused by adjusting partitions with one of these "partitionmagic" type things. I believe that none of them can adjust the cluster size - I'd be impressed if they could. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....