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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news2.acs.oakland.edu!condor.ic.net!news.sojourn.com!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!demos!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.ruhr-uni-bochum.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!Aachen.Germany.EU.net!AC-Net.de!rmi.de!Duesseldorf.Germany.EU.net!Bonn.Germany.EU.net!tools!ws From: ws@tools.de (Wolfgang Solfrank) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: DOS<->BSD problem Date: 16 Sep 1996 17:03:44 GMT Organization: TooLs GmbH, Bonn, Germany Lines: 23 Message-ID: <WS.96Sep16190344@kurt.tools.de> References: <518mko$9j7@pf1.phil.uni-sb.de> <32385FBC.7E2D@www.play-hookey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kurt.tools.de In-reply-to: Ken Bigelow's message of Thu, 12 Sep 1996 19:08:44 +0000 In article <32385FBC.7E2D@www.play-hookey.com> Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> writes: > > Now I have some serious problems with mounting the DOS partition (Win95): > > I was able to mount it (rw), but during the boot-up, the warning > > "Mountmsdofs() : root directory is not a multiple of the clustersize in lenght" > > occured. [...] > > This is rooted not in DOS, nor strictly in FreeBSD, but rather in the > way M$ screwed with the directory structure and disk layout to permit > those long filenames in Win95, plus some other diddling. Because of > Win95, that slice is no longer truly a DOS partition in all respects. No, that's not a problem specific to the Win95 way of structuring a DOS partition. It's a common problem that was there in pre-W95 DOS partitions, too. While I don't know which version of msdosfs is in FreeBSD, this problem was fixed in the NetBSD version over a year ago. Someone may want to integrate a newer version of msdosfs from NetBSD into FreeBSD, especially since the NetBSD version has support for Win95 long filenames. -- ws@TooLs.DE (Wolfgang Solfrank, TooLs GmbH) +49-228-985800