From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 14 13:26:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA23285 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 13:26:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from prometheus.hol.gr (root@prometheus.hol.gr [194.30.193.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA23279 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 13:26:06 -0700 (PDT) Hops: 0 Host: freebsd.org. Received: from xenos (ppp92.hol.gr [194.30.192.204]) by prometheus.hol.gr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA18129 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 23:21:01 -0200 (GMT) Posted-Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 23:21:01 -0200 (GMT) Message-Id: <2.2.32.19961014212539.009af974@prometheus.hol.gr> X-Sender: sergios@prometheus.hol.gr X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 23:25:39 +0200 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Sergios Subject: Re: msdosfs broken... Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> Is it possible that msdosfs is unable to work properly when there is a >> partition greater than 1gb (i.e. with clusters of 32kb ?). The warning >Yes, msdosfs is "broken" in this regard. When you get that message, >unmount the filesystem IMMEDIATELY and never mount it again, it IS >destructive! Just of curiosity what exactly happens in this case? Once I mounted a large dos partition to copy some files there and on boot the bsd / had vanished [!]. I had to reinstall / but I am still curious why it was the / filesystem that got corrupted and not the dos partition.... (Now I have / in its own slice and differrent partitions for /usr /var etc. so In Case Shi* happens I will not have to reinstall everything.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------