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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.webspan.net!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Dos Partition Mount Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 13:21:41 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 16 Message-ID: <324842D5.7DE14518@FreeBSD.org> References: <01bba9f8$8c05e240$b0675ac2@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) Eitan Michaelson wrote: > When I mounting the DOS partitons under BSD (mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 > /mnt) > I'm getting some king of an error (multi somthing in the root directory > ..kernal error) Yes, this problem is why it's the default behavior to mount DOS filesystems read-only if you specify mount points for them in the FreeBSD partition editor (during installation). Some DOS filesystems tickle a *bad* bug in FreeBSD msdosfs code, and that is why the msdosfs code is currently being re-written from scratch. In the meantime, don't mount DOS filesystems read/write. Thanks... -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project