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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Win95/FreeBSD files
Date: 10 Dec 1996 05:16:58 -0000
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In article <32AB19FD.567F@videotron.ca>,
Roger Savard <roger.savard@videotron.ca> writes:
: Hi,
:
: I have a Cyrix166+, 32MB and two drives : Win95 & FreeBSD 2.1.5.
: Now my problem is when I mount the Dos partition with
: either the "mount_msdos /dev/wd0s1 /msdos" or the
: "mount -t msdosfs ... ... command
: I get the following message on the console:
:
: "mountmsdosfs(): Warning: root directory is not a multiple
: of the clustersize in length.
:
: The outcome of that warning is, I can the mount the "dos"
: partition, browse in it BUT whenever I mv files around
: or copy any elsewhere, it messes up the unix filesystem
: real good. (I ended up re-installing FreeBSD twice).
:
: What is the right way to mount the DOS filesystem and exchange
: file in a good manner.
You're doing it right - just don't mount any DOS partitions bigger than
1022Mb. It's a buggette !
--
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
.