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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!nntp04.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!mypc From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: LOCKED OUT!!! Date: Sun, 25 Aug 96 12:45:21 GMT Organization: What? Me, organize? Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4vpi2i$iv9@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <199608251102.LAA18769@email.croughton.af.mil> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.144 X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #2 In article <199608251102.LAA18769@email.croughton.af.mil>, "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@croughton.af.mil> wrote: >The Files that you are seeing on your DOS mounted Slice (partition) are the >short filenames (8 character + 3 char ext) that Windows 95 creates in order >to be compatible with the FAT filesystem and with older Windows programs >that do not understand long filenames. No, it was something other than that I was seeing. I keep a pretty clean root directory on my DOS drive, mostly directories, and I was seeing *lots* of garbage filenames when I did a ls. Strangely, a ls -l produced a correct listing. I'm beginning to wonder if there may be a bug in the FreeBSD code that handles DOS file systems. >When you shut down a Unix machine it needs to save any changes that are >made to the file system. When you power'd down the system it didn't update >the second copy of the file system tables. Upon reboot FreeBSD warned you >that the system wasn't properly shutdown. > >Does it actualy grind to a halt or does it ask you for a path to your >shell, inorder for you to manually run the fsck (File System Check >Utility)? Unfortunately, it doesn't get that far. After the warning about the root file system not being properly dismounted, it just hangs. >If it asks for your shell, just hit enter (this puts the system into single >user mode). At the prompt, type "fsck". It should then check all file >systems and make the nessecary corrections. When it has finished type >"reboot". This should reboot the system and get your LOGIN prompt back. Guess I'm gonna have to boot from a floppy and see what I can do. BTW, I had a heck of a time getting a bootable floppy created with the latest (2.1.5) release. -- Conrad Sabatier -- http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads/