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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!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!news2.EUnet.fr!newsbr.eunet.fr!usenet From: fgm@osinet.fr (Frederic G. MARAND) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Dos Partition Mount Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 21:56:21 GMT Organization: Groupe SEDI / Agorus SA / OSI SARL / Lines: 19 Message-ID: <52pium$14h@newsbr.eunet.fr> References: <01bba9f8$8c05e240$b0675ac2@defau> <APC&63'0'18d7dd1b'666@glas.apc.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.107.196.155 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Vlad D. Nebolsin <nebo@glas.apc.org> wrote: >Well, I've got such a problem. When I was mounted 400Mb DOS partition >r/w everything was just fine. But once I've tried to mount another 1Gb >DOS partition from the second hard. Well, I will never do it again, thanks. >My /dev directory was erased and some /bin files. It took me two days >to restore neccessary files and make my box alive. And after all I >still cannot creat /dev/wd0 file so I was forced to exchange my disks >and booting from /dev/wd1, not /dev/wd0. >Resume: DON'T MOUNT >400Mb DOS PARTITIONS or you will nuts with deadful > system. Actually, ithe limit is not 400 Mb, but around 500 MB (I guess it is 528 MB, but someone had better confirm/infirm). It has to do with the bios boot code. More details were given (must have been last year) in Unix Reviiew.