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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!pith.uoregon.edu!cliffs.rs.itd.umich.edu!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!chaos.crhc.uiuc.edu!news2.acs.oakland.edu!newsfeed.concentric.net!news-master!not-for-mail From: Malloc@cris.com (Matthew Bancroft) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: DOS FAT FS support in FreeBSD fixed ? Date: 1 Jan 1997 01:11:03 GMT Organization: Concentric Internet Services Lines: 28 Message-ID: <5acdj7$6g2@herald.concentric.net> References: <59g13d$hh@herald.concentric.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: viking.cris.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33467 Daniel Ts'o (dantso@cris.com) wrote: : Not too long ago I recall that the FAT support under FreeBSD was : considered broken, particularly for writing in a FAT filesystem. Has this been : fixed ? What is the state of FAT support under FreeBSD ? : Thanks. : : Cheers, : Dan Ts'o : dantso@cris.com I guess FAT support is ok, as long as you dont attempt to write back to the dos partition... I was using FreeBSD 2.1.5 with a 3gig drive 1gig linux 1gig BSDI 1gig Windoze 95 After I mounted and wrote to the dos partition under FreeBSD 2.1.5, I recieved messages that /usr was an nonexistent. After more examination, i found that i had corrupted the freebsd and dos partitions. To fix the problem, i reformatted the dos and freebsd partitions and then restored the FAT partition from backup. Matt Bancroft malloc@cris.com bancroft@akamail.com