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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD filesystem for DOS partitions
Date: 16 Apr 1997 14:16:22 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5j2dst$o71@news.vsnl.net.in>,
jason@somehost.somedomain.com (jason) writes:
> Is there any BSD filesystems that let you use the current DOS partition like
> UMSDOS filesystem under Linux?
Yes, but there's a size problem. Don't try to mount partitions more
than 504Mb big (you can use bigger ones sometimes, but if you can't,
it'll trash your FreeBSD partitions as well as the DOS one).
> Jason
>
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
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