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To: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@masternet.it>
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From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Msdos FS 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 Apr 1996 00:30:45 +0200."
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Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote in message ID
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> #mount /mnt/work  (or /mnt/win95)
> mountmsdosfs(): root directory is not a multiple of the clustersize in length
> #

IT'S NOT AN ERROR!!!

It's a warning (which doesn't say it's a warning. Sigh). What it does
say though is that WRITING to the DOS parition could have VERY
dangerous effects (including trashing data on most of the drive).

I'd advise you to mount it READ ONLY...

Gary