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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mounting DOS drives antics
Date: 24 Dec 1996 01:25:39 GMT
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In article <59etkk$b2i@news.xs4all.nl>,
phiber0@xs4all.nl () writes:
[.....]
> Now, when I want to mount my DOS drive (``mount /dos'') I get this disturbing
> message:
>
> ``Dec 20 21:44:42 mappy /kernel: mountmsdosfs(): Warning: root directory is not a multiple of the clustersize in length''
[.....]
> The actual output is much longer, but I think you get the picture.
> Am I doing something wrong here? Is my hardware faulty?
Yep - you're mounting a dos partition greater than 1022Mb (I'll bet). It's
a well recognised bug at this point :(
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>, <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....