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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.unt.edu!news From: Bruce Jackson <jackson@replicant.csci.unt.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Freebsd or Slackware Linux ? Date: 14 Feb 1997 08:16:34 -0600 Organization: Computer Science, UNT, Denton Texas Lines: 24 Message-ID: <q8g1yzscal.fsf@replicant.csci.unt.edu> References: <32fd0363.41392688@news> <01bc1795$c7e857b0$57c147cf@jbushakra> <Pine.OSF.3.95.970213145519.12910A-100000@alpha1.phoenix.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: replicant.csci.unt.edu X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35418 Paul Flores <pflores@phoenix.net> writes: > On 10 Feb 1997, John wrote: > Wierd. I regularly play Xquake on FreeBSD machine using the quake .PAK files > on my DOS partition. Could this be a hardware thing? I have never ever EVER > had my drives trashed using the mount_msdos feature. (and I still use 2.0.5 > on a regular basis.) I've never hosed a MSDOS partition by just mounting it. I have hosed MSDOS partitions by deleting files or writing to MSDOS partitions > 512MB though. Since all I use MSDOS for is the occasional game this isn't a bfd to me, I can reinstall the games without too much trouble. Still, things like this can be annoying. For users who have data on their MSDOS partition and no recent backup this would more than annoying. I haven't tested the situation on the newer versions of FreeBSD so it is possible that the unlink and the > 512MB problems with MSDOS partitions have been fixed. -- Bruce Jackson b.a.jackson@ieee.org http://replicant.csci.unt.edu/~jackson/