From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 3 13:17:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA07222 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 13:17:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from camelot.netcom.net.uk (root@camelot.netcom.net.uk [194.42.225.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA07095 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 13:16:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@kempston.demon.co.uk) Received: from dialup-02-41.netcomuk.co.uk (dialup-02-41.netcomuk.co.uk [194.42.228.169]) by camelot.netcom.net.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA09179 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 21:16:32 GMT Message-Id: <199803032116.VAA09179@camelot.netcom.net.uk> From: freebsd@kempston.demon.co.uk (Mike Mann) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE : Copying DOS files to UNIX Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 21:16:43 GMT Organization: Switched on in Kempston References: <199803011332_MC2-3513-FE91@compuserve.com> In-Reply-To: <199803011332_MC2-3513-FE91@compuserve.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 1 Mar 1998 13:32:41 -0500, MALCOLM BOFF wrote: >To mount the DOS partition you need a mountpoint (I created a directory >/dos) then issue the following command :- >mount -t msdos /dev/sd0s1 /dos Except that, on my system, attempting to mount two of my three DOS partitions results in: "mountmsdosfs(): Warning: root directory is not a multiple of the clustersize in length" and "man mount_msdos" reports that, after this warning message: "it is possible that writing to the MS-DOS filesystem would produce corruption on the disc" which is rather worrying. My third DOS partition mounts successfully without this warning. Can anyone advise if there's anything I can do to the root directory on the DOS partitions to avoid this warning and the potential for corruption? Or any other workaround? I presume that mounting read only is safe. Regards, Mike. -- Home: freebsd@kempston.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message