Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-lond.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!usenet
From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mounting DOS drives
Date: 29 Dec 1996 22:00:20 GMT
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
Lines: 22
Message-ID: <5a6plk$e3l@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
References: <59hmci$qj5@news.xs4all.nl> <32C1A670.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org>
NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.coverform.lan
X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33314
In article <32C1A670.41C67EA6@freebsd.org>,
"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Yes, you have a DOS partition that FreeBSD's current (buggy) msdosfs
> code does not like, probably for its size (>511 MB partitions seem to
> cause it special headaches).
It's definitely >1022Mb and <1.4Gb.
awfulhak $ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
[.....]
/dev/wd0s2 1046016 395664 650352 38% /dos/c
/dev/sd4s5 899360 596944 302416 66% /dos/d
[.....]
As moving between 1022 and 1028Mb changes the DOS cluster size, I didn't
dare to narrow it down further (it hurt too much when I tried 1.4Gb) ;(
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>, <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....