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From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Dos Partition Mount
Date: 26 Sep 1996 12:16:00 -0700
Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
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Message-ID: <52ekpg$8sj@bofh.noc.best.net>
References: <01bba9f8$8c05e240$b0675ac2@default> <324842D5.7DE14518@FreeBSD.org>
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In article <324842D5.7DE14518@FreeBSD.org>,
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>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...
Actually, don't even mount them read-only. It'll still do nasty
things (like, say, your /bin directory will disappear).
rone
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